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Malcersy’New  Chi  na 

In  College  7/1  America 


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CHINESE  STUDENTS’  CHRISTIAN  ASSOCIATION 

IN  NORTH  AMERICA 


Contents 

I.  Pictorial  Section 

Seekers  of  LeaniiiKj 
M essengers  of  Cood-zvill 
The  C.  S.  C.  .  /. 

Christian  TcUnzvship 

Character  Huiltliiig 

Autiuiial  Catheriiig  at  hnliajiti polis 

Home  Life 

Service 

II.  Literary  Section 

I  ’resilient  's  M  essage 
.  I  merican  (  allege  I  .it  r 

I’ersaiial  I nz’cstinents  in  ! nt ernatiana!  C ooil-zoill 
.1  (.  on  I  I'ssion  :  I’ersanal  !  ieros  on  l.ile  lu'ligion 
\l\'  Season  for  Tntering  the  (hristian  Ministry 
I  he  I nilianapolis  Stmlent  I'ainnteer  Convention 
The  (  hanging  M issionary 


'I'lic  (  'hinese  Students  Cliristiaii  Assnei.it  iuii  is  alldiated  w  ith  llie  t  uinmittee  dii  lM  irinn> 
Iselatidiis  Ainnnt;  l''dreii;ii  Stiidrii.ls.  a  I  teuartinent  dl  llic  I  ntenial  idual  ( 'diiiniitlee  dl  llie 
^  .  M  A.  'l  lie  dtlieers  nf  tlie  I*.  I\.  C  .  ai’e  I',  l  .  Jenkins,  t'liairman.  15.  II.  I  .melier, 

Ire.isnrer,  t  liaides  I),  llnrrey,  ( ieneial  Seeretar\  and  I'.dward  II.  I.dekwndil,  I'xeentixc 
Seeretary. 

Central  <  dliee  '  .547  Mailisnn  .\\i'nne.  New  N  di  k. 


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I'acuKj  llic  N czi'  Life  in  America 


SEEKERS  OF  LEARNING 

OX  l'-K  two  thousand  students  troni  China  are  studying  in  Amer¬ 
ican  colleges  to-da}'.  I'en  thousand  miles  aw'a}'  from  honieland, 
they  ai'c  here  in  setirch  for  the  education  and  technical  training 
that  America  can  gi\e  that  will  e(|ni])  them  for  better  service  to  their 
own  country  and  to  the  world.  ( )n  their  return  they  will  lie  foci  of 
inllnence  in  the  making  of  a  new  China,  ddieir  future  nsefnlness 
is  being  determined  ne^w  not  merel}-  by  the  kind  of  education  they  get 
in  college  hnt  also  by  the  kind  of  spiritntd  and  moral  induciice  that  is 
shaping  their  character  and  their  ideals. 


Chinese  Slitdenls  Landing 


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MESSENGERS  OF  GOOD-WILL 

An  act  of  «'(»od-vvill  on  the  i)art  (.)f  America  supplied  the  initial 
inoinentnin  for  the  coming'  of  Chinese  students  to  American 
colleges.  It  was  the  return  of  a  ])art  of  the  I’.oxer  Indemnity 
during  Roose\'elt’s  jjresidency  in  I'CX).  W  ith  that  lund  the  Chinese 
goeernment  founded  the  1\singhua  College  in  I ’eking  to  pre])are  young 
men  f(jr  higher  educalion  in  this  country  and  the  scholarships  which 
now  support  300  students,  men  and  women,  in  America,  d'he  choice 
of  America  for  the  training  of  her  future  leaders  indicates  China’s 
faith  in  America  and  her  admiration  not  only  for  her  colleges  hut  also 
her  national  ideals,  d'he  Chinese  students  in  America  are  esscMilially 
messengers  of  goodwill  between  .\meric:i  and  (  hina. 


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THE  C.  S.  C.  A. 

OXK-M.)Ul\'ri  1  (jf  the  total  number  of  Chinese  students  are 
Christians,  h'or  mutual  encouragement  and  co-operative  effort 
in  Christian  living',  fellowship  and  service,  they  have  banded 
ihemseh'es  into  what  is  known  as  the  Chinese  Students  Christian  Asso¬ 
ciation  in  North  America.  Its  beginning  was  made  back  in  1907  when 
C.  'b.  Wking  organized  the  first  Bible  study  group  among  the  Chinese 
students  at  Ann  Arijor,  Alich.  Two  years  later  in  the  summer  of 
a  conference  was  called  at  1  lamilton,  N.  Y.,  at  which  the  C.  S.  C.  A. 
was  organized  with  Wb  C.  Chen  (  Alichigaii)  Ih-esident,  Y.  S.  Tsao 
(Yale)  Secretar}',  1*.  \\b  Kuo  (  \\h.‘)oster )  Treasurer.  X.  Han  (Cor¬ 
nell)  \'hce-President,  Z.  T.  \hii  (Harvard)  and  C.  1'.  Wang  (^Yale) 
(leneral  Secretary.* 

dY-day  after  15  years  of  steady  growth  the  C.  S.  C.  A.  is  a  federa¬ 
tion  of  thriving  local  units  of  Christian  students  who  meet  regularly 
lor  Social  fellowship,  intellectual  exercise  and  cultivation  of  the  spir¬ 
itual  life. 

*  iJr.  Clien  is  ni.)\v  I'irst  Secretary  of  the  Chinese  Embassy  in  Loiulon,  Mr.  Tsao,  Presi¬ 
dent  of  Tsin,a;hua  College,  Pekino',  Or.  Kuo,  President  of  Southeastern  National  University, 
Nanking,  Or.  Han  Oirector  of  Government  Foresitry  Bureau,  Peking,  Dr.  Yui,  Genreal  Sec¬ 
retary  of  the  National  Y.  iM.  C.  A.  of  China,  Dr.  W^ang,  Commissioner  of  Rehabilitation  of 
Shantung. 

first  Offtii'rs  of  C.  S.  C.  woo 


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Edwarii  H.  LocKwoon,  Chari.es  D.  Hi  rrev 

Executive  Secretary  Genera!  Secretary 

Coiiunittcc  on  EriemUy  Relations  Amoiui  !Arei(/n  Stndoits  of  International  Coniniittcc  of 

Y.  M.  C.  A. 

CHRISTIAN  FELLOWSHIP 

American  friendships  play  an  important  part  in  the  life  of 
Chinese  students.  While  they  naturally  enjoy  fellowship  among’ 
themselves,  yet  the  lack  of  friendly  association  with  Americans 
excludes  them  from  the  larger  education  that  comes  from  intimate 
contact  with  the  culture  and  customs  of  the  country.  Testimony  is 
universal  that  the  experience  most  valued  and  rememliered  longest  Iw 
our  students  is  ])ersonal  friendshi])s  with  American  students  and  asso¬ 
ciation  with  good  American  homes,  h'or  the  ])m'])ose  of  helping  to 
cement  such  relationshi])S,  local  units — ‘‘E.  Ik” — of  Chinese  students 
and  American  friends  are  organized  at  different  colleges  on  a  Chris¬ 
tian  basis.  The  fellowship  is  activel\'  ex])ressed  through  weekly  and 
monthly  meetings,  di.scussion  grouj)s,  luncheons,  socials,  etc.  Lead¬ 
ership  is  assumed  hy  the  students,  hut  the  sympathetic  co-operation 
of  .American  friends,  churches  and  ‘A'”  associations  C(»ntril)ute 
greatly  to  the  success  of  the  woi'k.  (.See  Miss  (.Voiise's  article  in  the 
Lilei'ary  Section.) 


Early  at  the  lloine  of  Co!,  and  Mrs.  E.  O’,  Prackrtt,  Boston,  Erh.  lo,  /y.’/ 


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CHARACTER  BUILDING 

4  4QTUR1)^■  character  the  fniindation  of  national  s'reatncss" — is 
a  well  niKlcrslood  sa^  ini;'  in  China,  and  character  bnildin.e;' 
thcretorc  is  regarded  as  the  cardinal  aim  (d  education.  ( )ne 
ol  the  ,i;'reat  agencies  in  North  America  for  character  hnildine;  and  the 
shaping'  of  one’s  life  ideals  is  the  students’  summer  contereuces  at 
.Silver  Hay,  Lake  (leneva,  etc.  d'here  our  students  see  the  idealism  of 
Christian  .\merica  at  its  his.;hest,  and  come  into  pei'sonal  association 
w  ith  the  .\merican  collcyye  student  at  his  l)est.  ddirouyh  the  courte.sy 
ot  the  .M.  C.  A.  h'riendly  Relations  Committee  Chinese  students  in 
larye  numhers  avail  themseL'es  of  the  oi)portunity  of  attending  these 
I  ()nfcrcnccs  every  year.  'Lhev  leave  lifedoni;  impressions. 


s 


Snap-Shots  of  Indianapolis 


NATIONAL  GATHERING  AT  INDIANAPOLIS  1921 

AX()'ri\nLI'.  event  of  the  }’ear  is  tlie  national  ^atherino-  of 
Chinese  Christian  students  at  Indianapolis.  (  )nc  hnndi'ed  and 
twenty-live  men  and  women  came  Iroin  ])arts  as  far  a])art  as 
Seattle  and  Alabama,  l.os  /Xn^eles  and  'Toronto,  San  I'raneisco  .and 
Poston,  d'his  was  made  ])os.sil)le  h}'  the  Student  X'olimtecr  Coincn- 
tion,  held  there,  I  tecemher  2<S-jannary  1.  'The  Coinention  has  ])assed 
into  history.  Ihil  it  has  become  a  permanent  ]).art  of  onr  lixes.  'There 
we  ean]”'ht  a  x’ision  of  the  breadth  and  de])t  of  the  religion  of  Jesiw 
(  hrist  such  as  we  never  kmew  before.  There  we  ])led,yed  .anew  onr 
personal  and  cor])orate  loyalty  of  the  eommandiip”'  liyaire  of  the  .M.aster 
and  1  lis  way  of  life.  'Idiis  e.\])erien(a‘  shared  1)\  c'.ach  one  of  tlw  Chinese 
students  with  the  rest  of  the  seven  ihous.and  xtuni”'  men  .and  x'oimLi' 
women  of  the  American  colleges  c.annot  hnl  he  an  incre.asinyly  ])ow- 
erful  factor  in  our  lives  as  the  years  on. 


The  (.  hnicsc  I  h'lriialion  at  Indianapolis  Cmn'cnliiin 


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M Ilian  Mui,  daughter  (i  yr.) 
of  Air.  Olid  Airs.  K.  C.  AIui, 

Chicago.  Air.  and  Airs.  Chen  Fong  and  I'aniily,  Poston 


Vnanyo  IIsii  (i  yr.),  son  of 
AIi\  and  Airs.  .Shnhssi  Ilsn 
Nciv  York. 


FAMILY  LIFE 

ON  this  pag'c  are  pictures  which  illustrate  a  delightful  phase  of 
Chinese  student  life  in  America  little  known  to  outsiders, 
namely,  the  happy  family  groups  among  the  students  that  are 
found  scattered  here  and  there  throughout  the  country,  d'hese  lively 
youngsters  will  before  many  years  go  h}'  he  trodding  the  academic 
])aths  like  their  fathers  and  mothers.  Meanwhile,  with  their  cunning 
smiles  and  joyous  vociferation,  they  are  keen  competitors  against 
the  ponderous  books  and  spectacled  ])ros  for  concentrated  attention. 
\\"e  also  take  pleasure  here  to  introduce  to  the  C.  S.  C.  A.  1^'ellow- 
shi])  the  family  of  Air.  and  Mrs.  Chen  h'ong  (vf  iloston.  Mass.  Fhev 
are  great  friends  of  the  C'hinese  students  in  lloston  and  Cambridge 
and  warm  su])]K)rters  of  the  C.  S.  C.  A.  and  all  forms  of  Christian 
service. 


Lily  Iloyin  Chao  ( lo  nionihs). 
daughter  of  Dr.  and  Airs.  G.  T. 
Chao,  Washington,  P.  C. 


.Steel  Tung  (,?  yrs.  3  months),  and  Alary  Chi  Peng  Kxvci  ( r~  months), 

Tung  (r  yr_  3  months),  children  of  Air.  son  of  Air.  and  Airs.  C.  T. 

and  Airs.  Tung,  Pittsburgh.  Kwei,  Princeton,  J. 


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Drew  Local  Unit 


SERVICE 

NO  greater  ideal  lias  ca]jturecl  the  hearts  of  men  than  Jesus'  call 
to  iinselhsh  service.  The  C.  S.  C.  A.  cherishes  this  Ideal  and 
through  its  central  office  and  its  local  units  aims  to  he  of  practical 
service  to  all  Chinese  students  in  America.  The  following  forms  of 
service  are  available  to  all  who  need  them; 


Jnforniatifjn  and  guide  service 
'I'ransportation 
t^'orwarding-  of  mail 
Meeting  new  students 
Purchasing  (discounts  secured) 


Employment 

■Securing  s])eakers 

I  Ios])itality  and  entertainment 

Visiting  the  sick 

The  Student  Loan  Fund 


This  Sttidenl  Loan  h'und  aims  to  hel])  students  in  tem])orar}'  finan- 
ci;.iJ  need.  It  was  started  two  years  ag<t  with  $l,d()()  C( (iitrihtited  h\' 
Americtin  friends  and  Chinese  students,  d'he  C.  S.  C.  A.  assigns 
$1,00(J  every  year  in  its  budget  for  this  ])urpose.  aiming  uhimtUely  to 
build  the  fund  tip  to  $2.S,()00. 


Dciniil  ItH'lc  Study  (iroiij' 


II 


James  K.  Suen 


Miss  Grace  Zia 


Miss  Eva  Chang 


OFFICERS  OF  C.  S.  C.  A.  1923-1924 


Q.  S_  Tong 


David  Hung 


JoSEI'll  'I'Ul'k' 


W'ki.mncton  Liu 


Chingwaii  Lee 


Miss  I'ongtsung  'I'sii 


M  ISS  ^’l  I'  \  NG  \J'u 


K.  T.  Tv  wo 


Ira  C.  1  EE 


Iaigkne:  Ch  \n 


IJ 


PaUI,  (  M  ENG 


V.  Y.  Tsu 


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PRESIDENT’S  MESSAGE 

James  K.  Shen,  Western  Reserve  University 


The  C.  S.  C.  a.  is  a  students’  organization.  Rut 
it  is  a  students’  organization  only  in  so  far  as 
the  students  actually  participate  in  its  activities. 
Its  function  is  to  promote  Christian  character,  felk)\v- 
ship  and  service  among  the  Chinese  students  in  this 
countrv.  and  its  aim  is  to  incorjtorate  itself  as  jjart  and 
parcel  in  the  life  of  every  Chinese  student.  Are  vou 
interested  in  such  a  cause?  Will  you  not  therefore 
identify  yourself  with  it? 

Never  was  there  a  finer  sense  of  fellowshijj  and  a 
better  sjjirit  of  co-operation  as  shown  hy  the  Chinese 
students  attending  the  Ninth  Student  \'olunteer  C(jn- 
vention  at  Indianajjolis  in  their  deliberation  of  the  many 
serious  jirohlems  concerning  Chinese  students  in  this 
country  in  general  and  the  affairs  of  the  C.  .S.  C.  A.  in 
])articular.  If  their  opinion  and  attitude  rejjresent  a 


cross-section  of  the  Chinese  students  in  America,  then 
a  new  epoch  is  soon  forthcoming  when  China  will  he 
guided  hy  leaders  of  character  and  ability. 

I  cannot  conclude  my  message.  Itrief  as  it  is,  without 
alluding  to  the  financial  campaign  which  is.  now'  being 
launched.  If  the  cause  of  the  C.  .S.  C.  A.  is  worth  fos¬ 
tering,  it  is  also  W'orth  supporting.  Will  you  not  there¬ 
fore  contribute  generously  either  nf  your  means  or  your 
time  and  energy  ? 

To  one  w'ho  has  watched  the  Association  grow',  there 
cannot  hut  be  certain  satisfaction.  To  those  who  have 
in  any  w^ay  rendered  assistance  in  making  the  steady 
grow'th  of  the  C.  S.  C.  A.  ix)ssihle  and  in  its  ever  in¬ 
creasing  attemjit  to  accomplish  its  aims  is  due  therefore 
the  gratitude  of  the  Central  Executive  Board  on  behalf 
of  the  .Association. 


AMERICAN  COLLEGE  LIFE  AS  I  SEE  IT 


By  Franklin  11 

lib?  college  student  of  today,  if  he  reads  maga¬ 
zines,  discovers  that  a  great  many  peo])le  are 
worrying  seriously  about  him.  Barents,  college 
authorities  and  official  investigators  are  discussing  his 
scholarshi]),  his  extra-curricnlnm  activities  and  his  moral 
stamina.  'I'he  editor  of  one  of  the  most  po]>nlar  publi¬ 
cations  once  made  a  remark  in  a  club  meeting  to  the 
effect  that  in  colleges  he  found  enthusiasm  for  “college 
life’’  but  be  did  not  find  enthusiasm  for  college  edu¬ 
cation. 

A  Popular  Conception  of  College  Life 
'1  hat  most  colleges  have  altogether  too  much  “college 
life’’  in  pro])oiiion  to  college  study  is  an  assertion  w'hich 
few  im|)artial  observers,  will  deny.  hOotball  rallies,  \i- 
carions  athletics  on  the  bleachers,  garrulous  athletics  in 
dining  room  and  |iarlonr  and  on  the  |)orch,  rehearsals 
of  the  glee  club,  of  the  mandolin  club  and  of  the  banjo, 
rehearsals  for  dramatics,  college  dances  and  haiKjnels, 
I  raternily  dances  and  su|)|)ers;  a  numing  up  and  down 
the  campus  for  ephemeral  items  for  ephemeral  articles 
in  ephemeral  papers,  a  running  n|)  and  down  in  college 
jiolitics,  making  tickets,  iinlling  wires,  adjusting  com- 
hinalioiis,  canvassing  foi'  votes;  spending  hours  at  sor- 
inity  houses  lor  sentiments;  talking  ruhhish,  thinking 
riihbish,  revamping  rubhish  rubbish  about  high  jinks, 
about  rallies,  about  |)seudo-civic  bonors,  about  girls 
this  inces.sanl  round  of  social  activities  leaves  too  little 
time  for  tbe  (piiet,  thougbtful,  scholarlv  mastery  of  aca¬ 
demic  subjects.  I’bere  is  fre(|uently  nervous  tension  and 
inability  to  gel  anything  done  w'ell  because  there  are  so 
many  things  which  need  doing  all  at  once. 

However,  “college  life"  as  siuli  does  not  belong  to 


,  Akde  I'niversity 

everv  student  on  the  camjius;  only  the  ruling  class — the 
socially  fit — enjoys  it.  Those  who  have  no  social  |)res- 
tige  and  those  from  abroad  with  their  difficulty  in  the 
language  and  adaptahilit\'  are  disfranchised  from  i)ar- 
tici])ation.  They  are,  so  to  speak,  ostracised  trom 
societv,  seeking  ex])ression  and  companionship  in  books 
and  scholarshi|)  before  the  bar  ol  grades.  (  tsteiisihly, 
these  are  the  fortunate.  But.  are  they? 

Values  in  College  Life 

'I'he  truism  is  that  “college  lile"  ha-'  m  its  own  way 
an  edncatixe  \alue.  The  student  in  all  lus  association 
with  his  fellows  is  learning.  W  hili'  indulgence  in  "col¬ 
lege  lile”  lends  to  breed  intellectual  poxerly  on  the 
campus,  a  complete  immunitv  from  it  is  .apt  to  result  in 
social  stu|)idit\.  t 'ons(.'(|nentl_\ ,  the  problem  ol  "colk'ge 
lile"  is  twolold  :  to  the  socialU'  lit  it  is  oiu-  of  pro|)or- 
lion  and  to  the  unfit  and  those  Iroiii  abroad  it  is  oiii' 
td’  ada|>tation.  'fliese  two  problems,  though  distinctly 
different  in  nature,  are  interdeiH'iident  ;  the  soliitioii  id 
both  depends  on  a  clear  understanding  on  the  iiaii  ol 
the  students  of  what  “college  life"  consists  of  ,md  its 
significance. 

“t'ollege  life"  has  two  grou|)s;  the  organi/t'd  and  the 
niiorgani/.t'd.  'I'o  the  former  belong  the  athletie,  literal  ) , 
Iraternal  and  ridiglous  associations;  to  tiu'  latter,  the 
intormal  reading,  talking,  |ila\ing,  ‘'mixiiig"  of  iweiw- 
day  lile,  \isiling  and  walking  for  romantic  purposes. 

Athk'tic  and  literaiw  activities  in  lailk’ge  are  denoted 
hv  the  term  ‘kaillege  spirit.”  “|oin  the  loothall  or  has- 
kethall  sipiad.  attend  .and  i  heer  at  the  games ;  t  r\  out  for 
the  glee  club  or  anv  hter.arv  societv,  get  ad \ ei  I iscmenl 
fur  the  magazines,  or  in  anv  case  do  something  lor  the 


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cullege.  Don’t  make  your  relation  to  it  merely  one  of 
study.  Cultivate  a  larger  social  interest  of  some  kind.” 
A  spirit  as  such  signifies  loyalty  to  the  social  welfare. 

Participation  in  College  Life 

Ifvidently,  "college  life”  along  athletic  and  literary 
lines  has  its  educational  value  of  a  developmental  kind. 
In  the  participation  of  the  activities  essentially  social  in 
nature,  one  identities  himself  with  the  group  and  so 
with  the  hroad  and  healthy  life  of  the  institution;  he 
ailupt>  a  purpose  larger  and  higher  than  his  private 
aims,  and  thus  accpiires,  a  hahit  of  co-operation.  Fur¬ 
ther,  the  enterjirises  offer,  as  a  rule,  an  o]>portimity  to 
learn  something  about  subjects  outside  of  the  curricu¬ 
lum.  They  typify  the  student’s  way  of  adjusting  him¬ 
self  to  the  inevitable  concentration  in  purpose  aud 
method  in  the  college  curriculum  of  today,  and  of  gain¬ 
ing  a  broader  view  of  human  culture.  In  fact,  the  very 
effort  to  spontaneously  pursue  these  activities  is  self¬ 
training  in  many  lines  of  work — in  argumentative  alert¬ 
ness  and  effective  address,  in  gTai)pling  with  contem- 
[torary  jir^Tlems  and  developing  artistic  talent,  in  the 
practice  of  conducting  meeting  and  transacting  busi¬ 
ness. 

Theref(.)re,  a  college  education  which  lacks  i)articipa- 
tion  in  activities,  athletic  and  literary,  is  incomplete  ;  and 
the  student  who  falls  a  victim  in  this  failure  does  not 
measure  up  to  the  wdiolesome  standards  of  college  life. 
( )n  the  other  hand,  amidst  the  participation  in  athletic 
and  literary  enterprises,  there  is  usually  too  much  em¬ 
phasis  on  concerted,  vociferous  enthusiasm  and  too  little 
upon  quieter,  less  conspicuous  implication  of  good  col¬ 
lege  citizenship.  Earnestness  in  those  activities  is  fre- 
((uently  held  to  extenuate  the  purloining  of  a  reserved 
hook  from  the  library,  the  presentation  of  a  copied  essay, 
or  a  j)lunge  into  dissipation.  These  and  other  similar 
consequences  of  college  life  as  such  tend  to  offset  its 
real  value.  They  result  mainly  from  excess,  due  to  a 
misconception  of  the  real  aim  of  college  life  which  is 
educational  and  not  recreative. 

Fraternities 

d'here  are  at  present  some  thirty-three  college  fra¬ 
ternities  and  seventeen  college  sororities  having  a  na¬ 
tional  organization,  besides  the  local  fraternities  in 
single  institutions  and  the  professional  fraternities  with 
no  college  chai>ters.  The  fundamental  advantage  of  a 
fraternity  is  that  it  constitutes  a  college  home.  ]\Iem- 
hers  are  "brothers,”  .sympathetic,  mutually  heli>ful  and 
lifekjng.  Indeed,  wherever  the  wayfarer  finds  a  group 
of  college  }Ouths  wearing  his  own  mystic  letters  he  is 
assured  of  being  “at  home.” 

However,  the  life  of  “frats,”  though  looming  so  large 
in  the  newspapers,  causes  scarcely  a  ripple  on  the  cam¬ 
pus.  It  is  a  life  detached,  exterior  to  the  real  spirit  of 
college,  d'lie  purjuise,  interests,  habits  of  a  fraternity 
are  divisiv'e  rather  than  co-operative.  It  tends,  to  break 


Up  the  living  organism  of  the  college  into  fractions  and, 
sometimes,  troublesome  parts.  These  evils  are  intensi- 
tied  by  fraternity  residence  which  is  the  center  of  social 
distractions.  As  one’s  time  is  not  acknowledged  to  he 
his  own  and  all  sorts,  of  good-natured  interruptions  are 
freiiuent,  educatinnal  earnestness  gradually  yields  to  the 
hahit  of  good  fellowship.  In  fact,  the  social  excite¬ 
ment  in  the  case  of  sorority  women  is  sometimes  so 
sustained  as  to  interfere  with  health  and  ])roduce  a  ner¬ 
vous  or  exhausted  condition. 

Religious  Life 

1  he  religious  life  of  college  today  has  changed  from 
its  early  narrow  sectarianism  to  a  more  lil)eral  view.  It 
has  become  less  a  matter  of  verbal  profession  and 
formal  worship  and  more  of  eager  aspiration,  warm 
sympathy  and  practical  helpfulness. 

The  central  feature  of  the  religious  life  of  the  college 
is  the  chajK^l  service  and  the  student  organizations  such 
as  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  W.  C.  A.,  which  are  constantlv 
striving  to  deepen  the  spiritual  currents  of  student  life. 
The  character  of  the  chapel  service,  however,  varies 
widely.  Sometimes  it  is  almost  ideal  in  reverence  and 
I'eauty ;  sometimes  it  is  utterly  lacking  in  earnestness — 
from  the  visitors’  gallery,  one  sees  newspapers  and  note¬ 
books,  hears  a  steady  buzz  of  whispered  conversation, 
and  feels  the  restless  impatience  with  the  mechanical 
ceremony.  Often,  the  convenience  of  the  gathering 
leads  to  the  introduction  of  non-religious  matters.  The 
solemnity  of  the  occasion  is  lightened  bv  humorous  an¬ 
nouncement  and  the  seivice  of  worship  passes  easily 
into  a  football  rally.  However  that  may  be,  chapel  serv¬ 
ice  is  the  religious  center  of  the  college. 

The  chapel  service  of  the  college  has  a  spiritual  as 
well  as  a  social  value.  The  quiet  quarter  hour  at  the 
beginning  of  the  day,  the  inspiration  of  song  and  prayer, 
the  wisdom  of  a  brief  talk  on  the  more  serious  aspects 
of  college  life — all  these  have  a  steadying  power  for 
one  w'ho  puts  him,self  within  the  reach  of  it.  Life  needs 
some  such  ])eriodical  retreat  from  its  busy  enterprises 
and  nervous  strain.  Communion  with  the  realm  of 
ideals  brings  steadiness  of  aim  and  an  intiu.x  of  strength 
which  are  nowhere  more  needful  than  in  college  life. 
I'urther,  there  is  the  social  value  of  chai>el  service.  It 
calls  the  college  family  together  and  reminds  the  mem¬ 
bers  that  they  belong  to  one  group.  The  words  ad¬ 
dressed  to  all  alike,  the  common  participation  in  the 
form  of  worship  and  the  mere  physical  proximity  .serve 
to  suppress  differences  of  sentiment  and  to  highten  the 
sense  of  unity  and  brotherhood. 

Unorganized  Forms  of  College  Life 

The  unorganized  forms  of  college  life  occupy  a  very 
im])ortant  i>lace  on  the  campus  both  as  regards  the  time 
element  and  the  value  element.  Free  as.sociation,  casual 
discussion,  spontaneous  i)lay,  visiting  and  walking  with 
young  ladies — all  tliese  constitute  a  regular  part  of  the 


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(lailv  scliedule  of  a  college  student.  True,  they  take  too 
much  time  and  are  often  utterly  trivial  in  character. 
Hut  there  are  possibilities  of  real  helpfulness  in  play,  in 
talk  and  jest  of  the  campus.  .As  such,  they  properly 
helong  to  college  education,  and  its  participants  are 
learning  to  go  through  life  in  a  good-natured,  sympa¬ 
thetic  and  kind  way. 

The  college  of  today  is  no  more  a  sheltered  world 
where  one  dreams  away  the  four  years  of  “ideal”  life 
with  men  of  his  own  class  and  of  his  own  prejudices. 
It  has  become  a  real  arena  where  every  tyjre  of  men 
whom  one  will  meet  in  his  later  life  is  represented. 
Hence,  one  of  the  most  valuable  opportunities  of  col¬ 
lege  life  is  the  chance  to  get  acquainted,  not  politely  and 
distantly,  hut  informally  and  intimately,  with  all  types 
of  men  and  minds  from  all  ])arts  of  the  world  and  all 
classes  of  society,  so  that  one  may  learn  what  the  young 
men  and  young  women  are  really  thinking  and  ho[)ing. 
Knowledge  of  men  is  an  indispen.sahle  feature  of  real 
education  :  not  a  knowledge  of  their  weakness,  as  many 
seem  to  mean  by  the  jjhrase,  hut  knowledge  of  their 
strength  and  capabilities,  so  that  one  may  get  the  broad¬ 
est  possible  symjiathy  with  human  life  as  it  is  actually 
lived  today  and  not  as  it  is  seen  through  the  idealistic 
glas.ses  of  our  forefathers.  The  unorganized  forms  of 
college  life  offer  the  best  means  for  the  attainment  of 


this  knowledge.  For,  in  free  association  and  incidental 
recreation,  one  spontaneously  reveals  his  true  self  which 
is  too  often  under  the  mask  of  formality  for  others  to 
visualize. 

The  Ideal  College  Life 

The  ideal  college  life  of  a  student  is  not  what  it  is, 
as  I  have  stated,  lint  one  of  modification  and  modera¬ 
tion.  It  is,  that  of  faith,  hope  and  love,  seeing  the  world 
as  ruled  by  a  power  which  makes  for  righteousness  and 
strengthens  us  in  our  living;  mi.xing  democraticall v  with 
all  kinds  of  people,  picking  our  friends  according  to 
their  congenial  interests  and  picturesque  personalitv ; 
active  in  some  form  of  athletics  and  in  one  or  two 
.societies ;  talking  as  much  as  we  read,  awaking  to  ideas 
of  larger  imjxirt  than  our  little  world  ;  learning  much 
from  sparks  that  we  strike  from  our  friends  and  their 
conversations;  susceptible  to  all  currents  of  life  around 
us,  knowing  the  professors  as  men  and  the  companions 
as  adventurers  in  the  enterprises  of  learning:  such  life 
1  like  to  think  as  “ideal"  college  life.  It  is  a  life  that 
truly  educates  and  truly  nourishes.  Its  attainment  for 
the  socially  fit  on  the  carnims  requires  a  sense  of  jn'O- 
[Kirtion  and  rational  self-control,  and  for  the  unfit  and 
those  from  alrroad,  a  means  of  introduction  and  the 
ability  of  adai^tation. 


PERSONAL  INVESTMENTS  IN  INTERNA¬ 
TIONAL  GOODWILL 

By  JMiss  Annk  AI.vkie  Ckousi:,  C  incinnati,  <  ). 


Moke  imjjortant  for  the  cause  of  international 
good  will  than  our  individual  attitude  toward 
the  League  of  Nations,  and  more  ftir  re.aching 
in  the  cause  of  foreign  missions,  than  our  signature  to  a 
check,  is  the  use  we  Americans  make  of  the  rich  r)p])or- 
tunities  for  international  friendshi]>s  with  the  foreign 
students  among  us.  Not  one  ought  to  he  left  to  the 
tender  mercies  of  a  common  rooming  house,  :dl  too 
often  improperly  or  insufficiently  nourished,  his  coming 
and  his  going  out  unnoticed,  buried  amid  piles  of  hooks, 
his,  most  intimate  and  often  only  associtite  the  esteemed 
Mr.  Noah  Webster.  He  needs  live  friends  to  exjilain 
tlie  didicult  i)assage,  with  whom  to  share  hoiiK*  jiictures 
and  news,  to  hel|)  him  relax  when  he  has  brain  f:ig,  to 
cheer  him  when  lonely,  to  take  a  kindly  interest  in  his 
physical  and  spiritu.al  needs.  While  true  of  ;dl  foreign 
students,  this  is  especially  true  of  the  (  triental  w  ho 
needs  more  help  in  becoming  “acclimated”  to  onr  life, 
:ind  who,  rightly  or  wrongly,  usually  feels  himself  at 
first  the  object  of  more  or  less  unfriendly  cnriosit\'  or  at 
best  cold  indifference. 

Having  very  few  dormitoiies  connected  with  (  in- 
cimiati  schools,  we  have  tried,  not  always  successfully, 


to  locate  our  toreign  hoys  and  girls  congeniallv  and  in- 
e.xpeiisively  in  homes  where  the  interest  did  not  begin 
and  end  with  the  reni.al  and  .at  the  same  lime  where 
there  would  not  he  nndne  restriction.  Then  as  we  go 
about  among  our  friend',  and  when  ^piaiking  hefoie 
chnrches,  missionary  and  patriotic  societies,  we  ask  th.at 
some  will,  on  a  <lefmite  .Snnd.ay  soon,  iiuile  luai  stu¬ 
dents  to  church,  .and  to  diinu'r.  (  )ccasion;dlv  the  |)ros- 
]/eclive  hosts  will  first  atlcaid  the  I  ntern.ai  ional  t  Inh  to 
extend  their  personal  iiuit.ation  .alwavs  elTeclive.  h'i\'e 
ye.ars  .ago  this  llonrishing  clnh  w.as  founded  wa'lh  sev¬ 
eral  specific  i)nr|n)ses  in  mind  by  Mr.  h.lnur  ^'ellon, 
formerly  of  (  hin.a,  rectaitiv  of  the  fi'riendh  ITTations 
(  'ommiltee  of  the  M.  ( '.  ,\.,  then  Religions  Work 
Director  ol  the  t  'incinn.ati  M.  ( .\.  It  tries  to  meet 
some  ol  the  social,  cnllnr.al  and  spiriln.al  lu'cds  of  repre¬ 
sentatives  I  rom  the  stndiail  class  of  some  fifteen  na¬ 
tionalities  .and  h.a'  done  ninch  to  eliininalt“  r.aia-  piaq'n- 
dices  among  its  own  nuanhership. 

We  are  coiist.antly  on  the  lookout  to  pro\ide  foreign 
Students  as  speakens  .at  (  hristi.an  l'',nde.a\air  oi'  waimen’s 
anxiliary  meetings,  occasionalR'  two  or  three  at  an  eve¬ 
ning  church  servile.  Even  where  the  andience  does  not 


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catch  all  that  is  said,  their  interest  is  heightened,  thev 
enjoy  it  more  than  a,  possibly,  more  linished  address 
from  an  American,  and  the  opportunity  for  self  ex- 
jiression  is  excellent  for  the  student.  At  first  yon  may 
have  to  give  him  time  and  help  in  pre[)aration,  drawing 
out  those  things  from  his  own  exjierience  or  range  of 
acquaintance  that  yon  know  will  interest  an  American 
audience ;  and  he  may  need  much  coaching  at  first  in  the 
teclmiipie  of  speaking — imagine,  friend  American,  the 
coaching  yon  would  need  if  yon  were  to  address  an 
audience  in  Chinese!  Remember,  too,  you  would  be 
glad  of  a  little  kindly,  constructive  criticism  after  you 
speak  -not  just  flattery.  Too  many  Americans  err  on 
the  side  of  well  meant  flattery  and  unconsciously  do 
their  best  to  spoil  the  attractive,  socially  inclined  girl  or 
hoy,  while  they  leave  hopelessly  alone  the  shy,  reserved 
one  who  needs  digging  out  of  his  shell. 

To  celebrate  the  Ridth  birthday  of  the  city  of  Cin¬ 
cinnati  the  Civics  De])artment  of  the  Woman’s  Club 
held  a  luncheon  to  which  they  invited  representatives  of 
various  patriotic  organizations — the  Daughters  and  the 
Sons  of  the  Revolution,  the  Colonial  Dames,  May 
Flower  Descendants;  and  of  various  other  civic  organ¬ 
izations,  and  of  deixirtments  of  the  city.  The  speaking 
was  done  by  four  selected  foreign  students  who,  in 
twelve  minute  talks,  represented  the  ideals  of  his  or  her 
own  nation  and  how  it  is  contributing  to  the  welfare  of 
the  world;  how,  in  their  opinion,  x\merica  could  best 
aid  in  promoting  international  good  will  and  how,  as  a 
nation  and  as  individuals,  we  are  failing  of  our  duty  to 
other  nationals  both  within  and  without  our  gates.  They 
were  moderate  and  absolutely  courteous,  indulging 
neither  in  ultra  nationalism  nor  in  caustic  criticism,  hut 
they  said  some  things  well  worth  our  hearing.  This 
was  exceedingly  well  received  and  paved  the  way  for  a 
lecture  at  the  club  by  a  world  famous  authority  on  Race 
Prejudices,  and  was  followed  by  sermons  on  the  same 
topic  hv  several  prominent  ministers. 


We  must  remember  that  the  Oriental  in  particular 
with  his  far-reaching  potentialities  for  international 
friendliness  or  hate,  and  for  si)reading  or  rejecting  our 
religion,  comes  here  usually  with,  one  of  two  attitudes. 
D'  they  come  as  Christians,  the  product  of  mission 
schools,  they  often  have  an  exalted  itlea  of  our  countrv 
and  its  people.  They  expect  to  lind  a  land  Hooded  with 
the  spirit  of  brotherhood  and  kjve,  ruled  by  the  ideals 
of  Christ,  d'he  non-Christian  who  may  never  have  been 
in  close  touch  with  a  beautiful  Christian  life  of  sacri¬ 
fice,  sometimes  comes  full  of  the  consciousness  of  his 
own  race  superiority  hut  receptive  and  eager  for  our 
modern  learning.  They  find  crime,  law  breaking,  strife, 
lukewarm  churches,  class  and  race  hatred  among  so- 
called  Christians  to  match  that  of  the  non-Christian. 
Immeasurable  los,s  of  opportunity,  nay  peril,  follows  if 
we  fail  to  hold  the  one  and  win  the  other.  My  father 
said  to  one  hoy  as  he  was  starting  home,  “What  are  vou 
taking  hack  that  is  of  the  most  value?"  He  said,  “Jesus 
Christ.  When  I  came  to  Cincinnati,  I  hated  America — 
the  land  and  all  it  stood  for.  My  own  ancient  religion 
and  culture  1  knew  to  be  inestimably  superior.  At  home 
my  father  was  a  big  man,  here  I  was  worse  than  a 
noliody,  constantly  insulted  or  ignored.  The  white  race 
could  give  me  nothing  hut  technical  skill  which  I  would 
convert  into  honour  and  gold  when  I  return.  Then  I 
spent  a  week  in  your  home,  I  made  friends  with  your 
family  and  with  your  friends  and  with  their  friends. 
Not  at  once  hut  gradually  the  hard  wall  of  ])rejudice 
broke  down,  and  in  place  of  hatred  came  love — first  for 
vour  family,  then  for  the  other  friends,  for  your  land 
and  for  your  God."  If  every  one,  American  or  foreign, 
now  harboring  racial  antipathies  and  ])et  aversions, 
would  get  rid  of  the  static  in  his  spiritual  atmos[)here — 
hate,  susiiicion,  jealousy,  misunderstanding — he  would 
soon  he  receiving  messages  from  China.  Japan,  India, 
.South  America,  the  Isles  of  the  sea,  even  from  the 
heights  of  Heaven  itself,  hut  to  get  this  he  must  be 
willing  to  send  his  own  waves  all  the  way. 


A  CONFESSION 

By  Horatio  N.  T.  Ciiiaq  Ihiiversitv  of  IMichigan. 


Dr.  TSU  has  asked  me  to  write  down  my  “j)er- 
sonal  religious  thoughts,”  as  he  calls  it,  for  the 
Annual  \Tlume.  1  submit  them  to  the  review 
of  our  good  Christian  brothers  and  sisters.  If  1  can 
provoke  any  discussion  by  this  article  so  that  it  serves 
as  an  experiment  to  oi>en  a  new  column  in  this  book  to 
which  all  can  pour  in  our  private  thoughts  and  findings 
for  mutual  benefit,  I  am  satisfied. 

What  I  had  expressed  to  Dr.  'fsn  in  onr  quiet  talk, 
when  he  was  passing  through  Ann  Arbor  on  his  annual 
secretarial  visit,  were  these; 


.d.  d/y  life  I'ictv. 

B.  d/v  ■I'h'-'iV  toivani  Cod. 

C.  d/v  t'lczv  toioard  the  chio  ch. 

I  shall  explain  the  first  one  minutely  and  finish  up 
with  the  last  two. 

.1.  My  life  ‘X'ie-w. 

1.  What  it  is. 

My  mission  on  this  earth  is  "to  fight  against  evil  and 
to  tight  for  good.”  To  accomplish  this  is  not  an  easy^ 
task,  and  1  deem  it  worth  while  trying  to  set  it  as  my 


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life  motto.  I  put  the  idea  iti  two  short  sentences  which 
run  like  this,: 

"Lhiconditional  accei)tance  for  whatever  is 
sjoocl  and  true,  and  relentless  censure  of  what¬ 
ever  is  evil  and  corru])t.” 

These  two  sentences  are  very  simple  and  can  again 
he  I'lit  under  two  words  “good  and  evil.”  However, 
when  you  begin  to  apply  it,  and  apply  it  strictly,  you 
will  lind  it  so  diBicult  and  begin  to  appreciate  the  com- 
I'rehensive  meaning  it  embraces.  It  was  simply  through 
the  realization  of  this  i)oint  that  I  took  it  as  my  life 
philosophy.  Now  I  shall  tell  you  how  I  adopted  it  and 
how  big'  is  tl'ie  scope  of  the  motto. 

2.  How  adopted. 

At  first,  I  wondered  why  so  much  was  spoken  of 
Jesus  Christ  and  so  many  people  were  worshipping  him. 
This  fjuestion  was  answered  when  once  I  attended  a 
church  service  where  the  life  story  of  Theodore  Roose¬ 
velt  was  thrown  on  the  screen.  lie  was  shown  in  all 
his  struggles  against  the  political  gang  in  New  ATrk 
City.  Especially  in  one  jdace  his  spirit  was  vividly  put 
before  my  eyes  when  one  of  his  discharged  officers 
spoke,  “When  we  are  doing  our  dutv  and  doing  it  up¬ 
rightly,  there  is  no  fear  of  the  ‘tiger’:  because  he  will 
always  stand  on  our  side.  But  as  .soon  as  we  are  doing 
something  corrupt,  we  are  sure  f)f  the  result:  hecau'^e 
he  neither  fears  the  mayor  nor  anybody  else.”  I  felt 
at  that  time  that  unless  Roosevelt  was  relentless  against 
evil  and  corruption,  he  dared  not  to  stand  against  all 
the  world.  Unless  also  he  was  unconditional  in  accept¬ 
ing  the  merits  of  others,  his  subordinates  could  not  have 
said  and  felt  as  expressed.  Some  time  later  f  found 
his  hf)ok  called  “Fear  Cf)d,”  and  T  began  to  realize  that 
the  source  of  power  of  his  life  comes  from  (he  one 
spark  of  religion  which  Is  to  serve  God,  to  live  and  to 
fight. 

At  that  time,  it  happened  also  that  T  was  reading 
daily  the  orations  of  Abraham  Tu'ncoln.  T  admired  his 
courage.  As  no  one  had  ever  dareil  to  ojipose  sla\’erv 
which  was,  so  univer.sally  aece|ited  as  the  legalized  insti¬ 
tution,  his  signal  shot  against  I  )ouglas  showed  his 
dauntless  spirit  right  nn  the  surface.  But  where  ilid  he 
get  this  courage  and  vision  to  light?  llis  words  will 
show  his  aellon.  Read  his  speech  delivered  in  his  home 
town  before  he  accepted  the  presidency  and  sound  his 
feeling,  read  .also  his  tirst  and  second  inauguration 
speeches,  you  w  ill  Imd  that  his  power  and  xasion  to  fight 
.against  slavery  lie  in  his  perfect  conlidc  nce  in  (lod  and 
in  God’s  righteousness. 

At  that  time  1  was  .also  keejiing  my  morning  watch, 
anrl  was  reading  the  last  few  ch.aiiters  of  F'osdick’s 
“Manhood  of  the  Master.”  d'he  courage  of  C  hrist  was 
looming  up  before  my  eyes.  His  standing  .against  the 
Pharisees,  his  daring  speech  against  them,  in  calling 
them  “hypocrites”  and  “vipers,”  his  righliiig  sjiiril  for 


the  cause,  his  indomitable  spirit  of  perseverance  when 
even  Peter  had  no  courage  to  stand  and  deserted  him 
to  the  cross — all  this  picture  had  made  a  tremendous 
impression  on  me.  d'hen  I  began  to  realize  that  such  a 
vigorous  life  was  the  inspiration  for  many  lives. 

After  thinking  over  all  these  cases  for  many  days,  I 
came  to  the  conclusion  and  declared  the  life  view  in 
the.se  two  sentences  aiul  called  it  “mv  fighting  philos¬ 
ophy  of  life” : 

“Study  the  life  of  Roosevelt  and  Lincoln,  test 
the  life  of  Christ  and  his  influence  on  others, 
and  search  the  history  of  mankind  and  all  its 
worthy  members,  you  will  fail  to  find  a  single 
being  who  does  not  live  and  fight,  fight  against 
some  evil  and  fight  for  some  good.  For  indeed, 
otherwise,  it  is  not  even  worthwhile  to  live.  The 
value  of  this  life  of  ours  rises,  and  falls  in  pro- 
])ortion  to  the  strength,  the  zeal,  the  method  of 
the  fi.ght,  and  the  benefit  that  the  fight  ])roduces-— 
I  shall  call  this  ‘my  fighting  philosoiihv  of  life.’  ” 

Now.  let  me  illustrate  the  difficulties  involved  in 
carrying  out  this  life  view. 

Each  one  of  you  is  conscious  that  when  you  speak 
these  two  sentences,  they  glide  along  very  smoothh-  in 
your  mouth.  But  when  you  carry  theni  out.  vou  get  an 
entirely  dififerent  meaning.  Here  are  some  examples  : 

Case  I.  For  instance,  you  are  facing  vour  own 
temptation.  When  “.Satan”  siicaks  to  you  “go  to  hell.” 
'‘>T)u  say  “1  am  relentless  against  anv  evil."  So  you 
will  command  “get  hehind  me.”  But  when  you  trv,  \ou 
will  see  that,  right  after  the  command,  }our  second 
thought  Is  an.xious  to  call  him  hack  and  to  dotrov  vour 
words  of  pniinisc  “relentless  censure.”  It  is  a  case 
ha|)pening  all  the  time  in  the  course  of  resisting  your 
temptation  and  forming  vour  char.actcr.  Tndeed,  who¬ 
ever  ean  c.arry  the  motto  through  the  crisis  is  twice 
blessed. 

Case  H.  Idir  inst.'iiice,  you  hate  a  person  .and  ha\e 
prejiuhd'es  .againsl  him.  .So  no  matter  how  good  he  is, 
you  .alw.ays  h;i\'e  criticisms  .'igaiii'-t  him.  Then  mui  are 
called  upon  to  have  common  counseds  with  him,  and  \'ou 
liiid  th.at  you  arc'  uiiahle  to  gi\'e  what  merit  he  deserxc's. 
'I'liis  Is  ,'i  very  couimoii  case  and.  I  think,  every  one  has 
some  e.xperieuce  of  it.  Hid  you  e\'er  succeed  to  step 
o\'er  the  person.'d  prejuilice  ;uid  carr\  out  the  motto  to 
its  logical  conclusion  ? 

(  ase  III.  I'or  instance,  you  are  c.'died  on  one  dav 
by  the  school  authority  to  (|uit  on  the  ground  of  s.oiiio 
acts  which,  vou  know,  are  perfecllv  right  .'iiid  which  vou 
have  done  lor  a  cause.  <  'r,  in  addition,  vour  fric'iids 
who  were  kind  to  vou  before  turn  their  hacks.  (  )r, 
even  your  “sweetlieart”  though  it  is  too  livpothel ical 
and  extreme  a  ease— will  speak  against  von.  .Suppose 
the  acts  of  your  case  are  perfectiv  right  a.nd  courageous 
alter  you  have  thought  over  it  again.  (  )r,  su|iposc  you 


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are  even  required  to  give  uj)  }-nur  life.  If  you  do  so, 
you  will  will  the  liattle  liut  lose  your  life;  if  not,  vou 
will  lose  your  liattle  Imt  get  a  eouifortalile  living.  In  all 
those  eases,  are  you  going  to  earr_\  your  tight  through 
or  go  halfway  and  make  couiprouiises ? 

Now,  you  will  see  from  these  three  eases,  one  against 
teuiptatioii,  one  against  prejudiee,  and  one  for  a  good 
cause,  the  difliculties  in  earrviug  out  the  life  motto.  In 
most  of  the  times,  you  are  lighting  right  against  vour 
own  instincts ;  and,  in  many  iustaiiees,  you  are  engaged 
in  a  task  too  hig  for  our  human  eajiaeity. 

So  many  lives  have  come  and  gone,  hut  how  many 
choose  to  and  can  live  a  vigorous  life  according  to  the 
motto?  I  consider  this  a  worthy  ideal  to  try.  All  of 
us  know  that  to  turn  the  wheel  of  C  hiua  at  any  moment 
in  the  future  will  require  more  fighting  spirit  than 
wisdom  and  lietter  we  should  get  it  now  if  religion  ever 
means  anything  to  us, 

B.  Afy  z'icu’  tmvard  God. 

\\  hen  I  had  fmished  iiiv  .story.  Dr.  Fsu  remarked,  “It 
is  very  well  to  hold  this  life  view.  How  do  you  know 
whether  this  life  view  is  worth  while  or  not?  What  is 
your  assurance  in  the  ultimate  victory  of  good  over  evil? 


Do  you  recognize  some  supreme  force  with  which  and 
for  which  you  are  working?  P'or,  otherwise,  one  does 
not  know  where  he  is  going.” 

“Exactly.  That  is  why  1  want  to  complete  the  state¬ 
ment  now.  1  recognize  one  Supreme  Being  in  the  uni¬ 
verse,  who  is  immensely  interested  in  the  same  fight,  to 
whom  I  communicate  in  my  prayers,  hy  whom  I  shall 
be  assigned  to  work,  and  on  whom  I  hang  mv  whole 
life,  sorrow,  joy  and  all.  I  think  that  is  enough  to 
explain  my  view  toward  God.” 

C.  My  z'iczi’  toivard  the  church. 

“Then,  why  don't  you  join  the  church,  so  that  you 
can  have  the  companionship  and  mutual  encouragement 
of  like-minded  people?”  asked  Dr.  Tsn. 

“I  join  my  own  church.  That  church  is  built  after 
my  own  fashion.  There  is,  no  sect,  no  denomination 
and  no  dogmatism.  My  church  is  founded  by  Christ,  not 
hy  theologians.  iMy  church  preaches  consistency  and 
ncjt  controversy.  My  church  adores  highly  the  plain 
fellowship  and  love  and  not  the  goodwill  hidden  under 
the  coat  of  armament.  However,  1  jiromise  you  to 
join  the  New'  China  h  hurch  which  will  lie  formed  very 
soon  and  under  which  there  will  lie  onlv  one  sect,” 


MY  REASON  FOR  ENTERING  THE 
CHRISTIAN  MINISTRY 

By  y.  P.  Met,  Oherlin  College 


1\\'\S  at  one  time  a  heathen.  But  ever  since  my 
conversion  there  has  been  a  consciousness — the  still 
small  voice? — in  me  that  I  should  spread  the  good 
news  to  others.  However,  it  w'as  hazy  at  the  begin¬ 
ning  and  I  have  never  thought  about  it  seriously  until 
my  last  year  in  college  in  Peking.  iMen  come  by  their 
decisions,  some  throngh  insjfiration  of  the  moment  and 
others  through  a  long  process  of  consideration  and  de¬ 
liberation,  and  my  case  belongas,  to  the  latter  category. 

The  last  two  decades  saw  most  of  the  radical  and 
definite  changes  in  China  and  Chinese  life  politically, 
sncialK,  economieallv.  edncationally,  and  what  not. 
d'hese  changes  and  their  rather  unsatisfying  results  im- 
jiresscd  me.  while  iircjviring  myself  for  the  career  of  an 
engineer.  Bv  watching  these  remarkable  events  and  by 
disen-sing  tbcm  with  mv  college  chums  I  became  con¬ 
vinced  that  they  were  good  things  as  far  as  they  went 
but  did  not  go  far  or  deep  enougb,  and  that  such  changes 
were  hnt  little  better  than  “changing  the  water  while 
retaining  the  herbs.”  It  was  (juitc  clear  to  me  that  social 
reforms  have  to  be  accompanied  by  individual  regen¬ 
eration.  (df  course,  they  arc  cause  and  effect  mntually, 
hut  I  believe  in  tackling  them  from  l)oth  ends. 

From  conditions  in  China  I  was  led  out  to  view  the 
world.  It  seemed  that  strife  and  misery  were  not 
monopolized  hy  China,  and  that  the  realization  of  their 


existence  dejiendcfl  largely  on  the  sensitiveness  of  the 
sufferers  and  observers.  As  I  tried  to  unearth  the 
cause  of  the  state  of  affairs  I  founrl  the  same  conclu¬ 
sion  that  I  arrived  at  in  the  case  of  “heathen  China” 
would  do  verv  well,  unfortunately,  for  Christendom.  I 
consider  it  a  good-sized  miracle  that  I  did  not  at  once 
conclude  that  Christianity  did  not  make  any  difference 
but  felt  that  Christendom  needs  to  share  conversion 
with  the  heathens. 

'I'hus  far  it  was  only  an  intellectual  conviction,  though 
a  firm  one,  in  me  that  religion  was  needed,  if  not 
wanted,  in  China  and  in  the  world.  And  it  was  the 
National  Christian  Conference  held  at  Shanghai  Spring 
before  last  that  decided  me  to  fall  in  line  in  Christian 
service  myself.  With  all  the  respect  for  our  Christian 
workers  of  the  older  generation  I  have  to  say  they  did 
not  strike  me  as  equal  to  the  challenge  created  hy  the 
developments,  in  various  directions  in  China  during  the 
last  few  vears.  In  fact,  one  of  the  remonstrances  that 
keeps  coming  from  friends  re  my  decision  is  “^\  hy 
should  vou  with  your  jiromi.se  of  usefulness  join  that 
crowd  ?”  I  f  to  some  this  seems  to  be  a  hindrance  to  me 
it  is,  an  urge,  and  the  same  attitude  in  me  meets  and 
defies  the  so-called  “sacrifice”  of  the  Christian  minister 
in  China. 

I  have  thus  far  traced  the  steps  of  my  decision.  Dif- 


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fcriti^  from  Tsaiali  aiul  Amos  I  Iiavc  neither  heard  any 
voice  nor  seen  anv  sij,ni  from  heaven.  But  what  more 
do  I  need  to  Iiear  or  see  when  tliere  is  such  a  tremendous 
volume  of  cry  of  suffering-  and  such  an  unending  pano¬ 
rama  of  sights  of  vice?  While  [)ain  pushes  there  is  a 
haiijtiness  that  draws  me  on  to  Christian  service.  All 
through  the  ])criod  of  my  struggle,  was  actively  evolv¬ 
ing  a  central  princijile — the  princi])le  of  attaining  the 
supreme  ha])piness.  1  laving  arrived  at  the  conclusions 
and  convictions  as  I  did  I  feel  I  can’t  stay  out  and  be 
hajrpy.  For  what  haj)piness  can  compare  with  that  of 


working  with  a  princely  leader  for  the  cause  of  uplift¬ 
ing  man  froni  selfishness  and  its  consequent  dwindling 
and  dw'ariing  of  personality  to  working  for  the  common 
good,  the  Kingdom  of  God.  and  its  consequent  expan¬ 
sion  and  full  realization  of  jiersonality  ? 

Among  the  many  ajipeals  with  which  I  was  at  one 
time  actually  showered  upon  1  was,  most  deeply  im¬ 
pressed  hy  the  thrice  repeated  question  from  the  iNIaster 
himself:  “Lovest  thou  me?  Feed  my  flock.”  I  love 
Jesus,  I  love  his  cause,  and  I  love  his  flock.  Tiieretore 
I  go  to  preach  the  gospel — can  I  help  it? 


THE  INDIANAPOLIS  CONVENTION:  A 
PERSONAL  IMPRESSION 

By  Miss  Lillian  Kwei 
Clafi.in  Hall,  Jl'cllcslcy  Collcfic 


Tin*.,  sjiirit  of  the  Indianapolis  Convention  cannot 
he  to'd  in  wonls.  It  has  to  be  experienced.  The 
six  thousand  delegates  from  all  jiarts  of  the  world 
whose  eyes  are  usually  centred  on  the  affairs  of  a  single 
college  are  there  brought  face  to  face  with  the  problems 
intercollegiate.  For  instance,  students  from  one  college 
may  emphasize  lack  of  understanding  as  one  of  the 
causes  for  racial  ]ircjudices  while  students  from  another 
college  may  bring  uji  concrete  causes  probably  un¬ 
known  in  the  first  college.  This  exchange  of  iileas 
greatly  broadens  our  vision  ami  makes  us  want  to  see 
Ihings  from  different  |)oints  of  view.  W  hen  we  begin 
to  realize  that  there  are  many  points  of  view,  we  can’t 
help  becoming  more  tolerant  towards  those  who  differ 
from  us.  \Vc  think  of  oursehes  as  students  from  such 
and  such  an  institution,  but  more  as  members  of  tbe 
educated  world. 

I  he  Convention  has  not  only  hi'oadened  our  vision 
but  also  set  us  thinking.  It  does  not  offer  to  solve  the 
|)roblems  for  us,  but  is  docs  ])resent  them  to  us.  We 
sense  the  challenge.  We  no  longci"  can  assume  the 
attitude  of  “letting  sleeping  <logs  lie.”  Wbar,  racial 


])rejudice.  henceforth  will  stare  us  in  the  face.  W  e  have 
to  meet  the  challenge.  How  we  arc  going  to  do  it,  is 
left  to  individual  conviction. 

1  particularly  like  the  absence  of  emotional  appeal. 
Hie  leaders  of  tbe  Convention  know  how  easily  they 
could  have  utilized  our  emotions  to  get  a  great  number 
of  \'ohmtcers  for  the  missionarv  fields.  l'hc\'  didn’t  do 
it.  T’robably  they  realized  that  emotional  fervor  dies 
as  f|uickly  as  it  is  aroused.  Missionarv  undertaking 
beckons  to  ]>cople  wbo  know  of  the  numerous  hard- 
ships  and  flisap|)ointments.  Their  religious  enthusiasm 
will  not  blind  tbem  to  the  valuable  contributions  of  the 
nationals.  1  sball  not  be  sorry  at  all  if  onl\'  a  few 
people  volunteer  as  a  result  of  tbe  Coiuention.  .'\s 
long  as  tbev  arc  missionaries  of  whom  Christ  will  be 
|)roud. 

1  hav('  found  ibe  Coincnlion  broadening,  cballcnging 
and  wise.  Those  Inc  short  days  will  lore\er  dwell  in 
my  memoiw  because  they  will  strengthen  me  at  all  times 
with  the  thought  that  over  six  thousand  people  are 
marching  under  the  same  banner  and  strixing  after  the 
same  Ideal. 


THE  INDIANAPOLIS  CONVENTION  OF 
THE  STUDENT  VOLUNTEER  MOVEMENT 

By  Wi'.i.i.i  NwroN  l.ir,  I  larvard 


/.  Sdinr  fiixnf  “dope." 

\VA  bail  some  very  good  “flo|)e,  ”  to  use  a  ^  ankee 
cNpi'cssion.  I  be  s|)cakers  for  tbe  ( Oinention  were 
all  sincere  ;ind  earnest  Cbristian  men  delixei'ing  tbeir 
messages  convincingly. 

Wdto,  for  instance,  with  a  clear  conscience  would 
dare  to  face  I  )r.  .Sherwood  Fddy’s  challenging  question 
"Is  America  9<S%  alright?”  Among  other  things.  Dr. 
Fddy  gave  a  thorough  indictment  of  the  modern  in¬ 
dustrial  system.  Perhaps  he  had  left  mtiny  sore  sjiots 


nntonched,  but  what  he  did  dwell  on  was  enough  to 
kill  whatever  little  self-complacency  there  might  be  in 
man\'  (  In  istian  .Amcric.ins.  'I'o  some  “100  |)crx'enters'’  it 
might  be  tbe  first  time  they  he.'ird  that  .America  was  not 
0S%  alright  yet. 

(  )r  listen  to  Dr.  Paul  Harrison,  the  well  known 
“pro|)het  of  the  desert.”  In  his  direct,  simple  and 
homely  fashion,  he  drove  home  to  the  student  \-ohmtcers 
some  guiding  |)rinci|)les  of  mission.'iry  work.  “  Preat 
them  as  your  c(|tials,”  Dr.  1  l.irrison  continu.illy  cried 


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nut,  “aiul  live  among  them  to  help  them  to  help  them¬ 
selves.”  This  is  rpiite  a  ditferent  tone  from  what  we 
used  to  hear  from  the  lips  of  many  of  the  American 
returned  missionaries,  d'o  most  of  them  it  has  always 
been  a  matter  of  the  “white  men’s  burden.”  “Do  some¬ 
thing  for  these  wretched  lieathens”  has  been  their  pas.s 
word.  “Give  them  something.”  “have  pitv  on  them” 
and  a  host  of  other  similar  slogans  of  patronizatiov.. 

I  must  add  also  that  the  good  “dopes”  are  not  con¬ 
fined  to  addresses  and  speeches  alone.  Denomination 
meetings  were  found  to  be  helpful,  geographical  re¬ 
unions  useful  and  refreshing,  while  group  discussions 
were  always  stimulating  and  sincere.  In  fact  the  wdrole 
atmosphere  of  the  Convention  was  such  that  persons 
with  their  eyes  open  could  always  look  around  and  find 
food  for  thought.  For  those  who  are  used  to  Jim  Crow 
cars,  just  to  sit  next  to  a  jierson  with  a  black  skin  is 
for  them  a  good  education. 

II.  The  famous  |■csolllliolt 

“W  e  believe  that  war  is  unchristian  and  that  the 
League  of  Nations  is  the  best  means  of  preventing 
it.  but  we  would  resort  to  war  in  case  an  unavoid¬ 
able  clispute  had  been  referred  to  the  League  or 
the  World  Court  without  successful  settlement.” 

'J'his  is  the  famous  resolution  voted  for  by  the  Con¬ 
vention,  and  this  is  exactly  where  the  Christian  churches 
to-day  stand,  with  the  exception,  perhaps,  of  the 
nuakers.  The  student  volunteers  are  professed  Chris¬ 
tians,  but  they  are  not  professed  pacifists,  although  from 
Christian  point  of  view  the  two  terms  should  be  con¬ 
terminous.  Unfortunately,  most  Christians  have  been 
anything  but  pacifists.  For  two  thousand  years  the 
Western  civilization  has  been  trying  to  blend  together 
the  Christian  religion  and  war,  and  the  result  is  the 
above  resolution.  It  is  unreasonable,  then,  to  expect 
the  majority  of  the  delegates  attending  the  Convention 
to  come  out  openly  for  pacifism.  Time  is  at  hand,  but 
we  have  not  begun  to  repent  1 

Tut  that  the  proldein  of  war  has  been  so  much  dis¬ 
cussed  shows  at  least  one  thing,  namely,  that  in  the 
minds  of  the  more  thoughtful  youth  to-day  are  arising 
constantly  ([uestions  of  this  kind:  Does  not  a  church 
\\  hich  at  the  liehest  of  the  state  commends  its  young 
men  for  fighting  in  war.  stab  to  the  heart  its  whole 
lu'eaching  of  the  Christian  ideal?  If  the  church  can  not 
follow  Jesus  by  showing  its  members  how  to  meet  evil 
without  doing  evil,  then  is  it  not  worthless  as  a  Christian 
institution?  So  if  we  acknoweldge  that  war  is  un¬ 
christian  and  yet  hold  that  in  some  circumstances  we 
are  obliged  to  take  an  unchristian  way,  then  either  the 
church  is  using  religion  to  exploit  nationalistic  and  class 
ends  or  the  church  has  only  a  weak  religion  upon  which, 
in  a  crisis,  it  does  not  dare  to  depend.  It  is  high  time  for 
us  to  discontinue  our  hyprocrisy,  believing  one  thing 


and  practising  another.  We  have  to  serve  either  God 
nr  Mammon,  either  choose  war  or  cling  to  Christianitv. 
Jesus  of  Nazareth  is  talking  to  us  again; 

If  you  only  love  those  who  mve  you,  what  credit 
is  that  to  you?  why,  even  sinful  men  love  those  who 
love  them.  .  .  .  You  are  the  salt  of  the  earth. 
But  if  the  salt  l)ecomes  insipid,  what  can  make  it 
salt  again?  .  .  .  ^’ou  are  the  light  of  the  world. 

.  .  .  And  if  your  very  light  turns  dark,  then  what 
a  darkness  it  is.  .  .  .  Beware  of  false  prophets, 
they  come  to  you  with  the  garb  of  sbeep  but  at 
heart  they  are  ravenous  wolves.  .  .  .  S’ou  will 
know  them  by  their  fruit.  .  .  .If  any  one  wishes 
to  come  after  me,  let  him  deny  himself,  take  uj)  bis 
cross,  and  follow  me. 

In  this  connection  I  note  wdth  great  satisfaction  one 
of  the  most  important  outgrowths  of  the  Convention; 
the  formation  of  the  “Fellowship  of  Youth  for  Peace.” 
Iduring  the  Convention  many  of  the  delegates  felt  that 
the  pre-eminent  social  problem  facing  them  was  .the 
abolitioti  of  the  war.  I'lie  interest  in  this  problem  was 
so  widespread  that  39  of  the  49  discussing  groups  gave 
special  consideration  to  it,  and  the  nucleus  of  a  youth 
movement  against  war  was  born  in  a  meeting  repre¬ 
senting  twenty  states  of  the  American  Union.  Hence 
the  B'eHowship  of  Youth  for  Peace. 

According  to  the  statement  of  purpose,  this  Fellow¬ 
ship  of  Youth  for  Peace  is  “to  strive  for  the  removal 
of  all  causes  of  war;  to  work  for  the  establishment  of 
a  social  order  based  upon  co-operation  for  the  common 
good  ;  and  in  all  things  to  seek  the  unswerving  practice 
of  the  principles  of  Jesus,  not  only  in  time  of  peace,  but 
also  in  time  of  war.”  Though  retaining  initiative  as  a 
distinct  youth  movement,  the  Fellowship  of  Youth  for 
Peace  is  to  be  associated  with  the  Fellowship  of  Recon¬ 
ciliation. 

How  effective  a  jrublic  opinion  is  going  to  be  pro¬ 
duced  in  the  interests  of  i>eace,  it  remains  to  he  seen. 
One  thing  is  certain ;  Tomorrow's  world  is  in  the 
making. 

IJI.  The  Chinese  Delegation. 

IMany  of  our  Christians  lose  their  faith  after  a  few 
years’  stay  in  this  country.  This  is  a  lamentable  fact. 
It  is  alleged  that  American  materialism  has  something 
to  do  with  it.  Others  believe  that  our  youngsters  are 
not  well  taken  care  of  by  either  their  churches  or  their 
friends.  P)Ut  that  the  spiritual  indifference  on  our  own 
part  must  contribute  a  good  deal  to  this  loss  of  faith 
seems  to  me  undisputable.  So  a  convention  like  the 
one  we  had  in  Indianapolis  ought  to  be  helpful  to  us 
Christians  from  every  i)oint  of  view. 

W'e  had  125  boys  and  girls  in  our  delegation,  the 
biggest  foreign  delegation  in  tbe  Convention.  Most  of 
the  American  colleges  and  universities  were  represented.' 
Lven  from  the  Pacific  coast  there  were  four.  In  spite 


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of  the  crowded  ])ro»Tani  of  the  Convention  we  found 
time  for  several  _»et-togethers.  Two  socials  were  ar¬ 
ranged  whereby  new  acquaintences  were  made  and  old 
f riend.''hi|>s  renewed,  d'here  was  harmony  everywhere 
and  at  all  time,  d'wcj  mass  meetings  were  also  held. 
The\  were  enthnsiastic  as  they  were  i>icture.sque.  The 
first  one  was  devoted  to  C.  S.  C.  A.  affairs.  The 
second  one  was  gi\en  to  discussing  national  affairs  of 
importance.  1  lome  missionary  movement  happened  to 
he  the  main  topic.  To  show  that  when  we  discussed 
a  tiling  we  reall\-  meant  business,  a  suh.stantial  sum  was 
raised  and  sent  to  the  Home  Missionary  Society, 
Shanghai,  China. 

In  one  of  the  socials  we  invited  to  attend  all  our 
American  friends  who  had  been  in  China.  We  reserved 
80  places  in  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  dining  room,  but  150 
came,  d'hat  was  a  splendid  sight.  I  have  no  doubt 
that  most  of  the  Americans  who  came  to  our  social 
came  at  the  expense  of  some  other  “goings-on.”  That 
they  all  preferred  to  come  to  our  social  was  an  honor 
for  which  we  ought  to  be  thankful.  At  the  risk  of 
digression  and  irrelevance,  allow  me  to  venture  the 
following  oin’nion  about  the  missionaries  in  general. 

Missionaries  are  not  fashionable  jiersons  nowadays 
in  our  eyes.  We  ]>refer  to  meet  John  iJeweys  and 
llertrand  Russells.  Many  of  us  are  even  out-spoken 
enough  to  say  that  they  don’t  want  anything  to  do  with 
the  churches  just  because  of  the  missionaries.  Wdiy? 
Recause  the  missionaries  have  been  ])ainting  too  dark  a 
picture  of  our  land  and  our  people,  d'bis  is  undoubtedly 
true.  Rut  does  that  mean  that  all  missionaries  are 
crooks?  Sfime  of  them  mc'iy  have  been  misinformed, 
others  may  have  laid  wrong  emijhasis;  some  may  have 
drawn  conclusions  from  insufficient  facts,  while  others 
may  have  made  statements  altogether  too  sweeping. 
Rut  at  heart  1  beleive  they  are  trying  to  hel|)  ns  and  our 
people.  If  mi.s-sionaries  and  spies  and  fore-rnnners  of 
imperialism  become  conterminous,  I  will  be  the  first 
one  to  show  them  “this  way  out.”  Rut  v\'e  must  hi‘ 
candid  and  sportsmen  enough  to  be  grateful  to  the 
missicjiiaries  who  .are  still  doing  positive  good  in  (  hin.a, 
their  mist.akes  and  shortcomings  notwithst.anding.  W'e 
must  not  be  senfimenl.al  .and  over-sensitive.  'The  next 
time  we  he.ar  .a  mission.ary  talk  on  a  caatain  lieatben 
(  hinaman  dieting  on  sn.akes,  beating  his  wife  and 
drowning  his  dauglitei',  let  ns  tell  them  with  .a  philo- 

THE  CHANGING 

(  *  I\e|)riiif  by  com  ti’sv  ' 
1  ly  1  ’,\ui.  III 

'I'  w.as  no  .accident  or  irrelevancy  that  the  fifty  dis¬ 
cussion  groups  into  which  the  1  n(han.a])ohs  (  onven- 
tion  of  .Student  Volunteers  divided  itself  spent  more 
time  in  the  w.ar  pioblem  and  the  race  piobkan  fh.an  on 


sophical  smile  that  this  can’t  be  true  now,  that  might  be 
true  before,  but  all  wouldn’t  be  true  in  the  future,  ^\'e 
must  have  tolerance  for  our  missionarv  friends,  'khey 
are  as  human  as  we  are. 

11'.  The  Lcsso)i. 

After  the  Convention  Dr.  d'su  wrote  to  us;  “The 
Indianajrolis  Convention  has  gone  into  historv.  P)Ut  it 
has  become  a  jaermanent  part  of  our  lives.  There  we 
caught  a  vision  of  the  breadth  and  depth  of  the  religion 
of  Jesus  Christ  such  as  we  never  knew  before.  There 
we  pledged  anew  our  jrer.sonal  and  corpr)rate  lovaltv  to 
the  commanding  figure  of  the  Master  and  His  wav  of 
life.  This  experience  shared  by  each  of  us  with  the 
rest  of  the  seven  thousand  young  men  and  voung  women 
of  the  American  colleges  cannot  but  be  an  increasingly 
powerful  factor  in  our  lives  as  the  years  go  on.”  This 
ought  to  be  the  lesson  we  have  learned  from  the  Con¬ 
vention.  But  to  put  it  in  concrete  terms,  I  will  draw 
two  conclusions  by  way  of  a  .summarv. 

First,  we  have  seen  the  Americans  work  their  religion 
on  a  big  scale.  W'e  are  too  familiar  with  the  American 
way  of  doing  business.  W'e  have  seen  their  motor  car 
manufacturing;  we  have  attended  their  textile  shows: 
we  have  visited  their  banking  institutions;  aiul  we  have 
examined  their  |)acking  houses.  W’e  say  to  ourselves; 
“these  Americans  do  their  business  all  in  a  gigantic 
fashion.”  lias  it  ever  occunasl  to  us  that  the\-  work 
their  religious  ])roblem  almost  in  the  same  wav?  A 
nation  without  an  ideal  can  not  prosper.  Rerha])s  the 
Americans  are  not  so  materi.alistic  as  we  want  ourselves 
to  believe  tbem  to  be. 

.Secondly,  we  h.ave  seen  that  we  Christians  are  wiling 
to  l.'ice  the  f.acts.  \\  e  discuss  tlu’  industrial  ]irobl(.'m  and 
lind  out  how  unchrist  ianly  we  beha\e.  W'e  raise  the 
racial  (piestion,  and  we  seem  to  know  for  the  first  time 
that  Christ  was  .a  Jew.  W'e  talk  about  the  evils  of  war 
and  we  made  a  resolution  to  expose  onr  own  weakness, 
test  our  own  l.ailh  and  disclose  onr  own  h\])ocris\-. 
Right  or  wrong,  we  w.anl  to  f;ne  the  facts  which  is  a 
good  tiling  to  do. 

In  a  word,  so  long  as  we  c.arrv  the  spirit  of  the  t'on- 
\’enlion  lioine  and  give  it  ;i  clianci’,  the  Convenlion  we 
just  have  h.ad  is  .a  great  foiaa’  for  good.  This  Coiueii- 
lioii  is  very  nncon\ aail ional  :  that’s  its  strength.  W'e 
may  becoiiu-  con\ cait  ioii.all  \  niicons  cut  ional  ;  that's  oiir 
danger. 

MISSIONARY* 

il  (  liri.sliiiii  (  Ciil Ki'v) 
na'  1 1 1  N. SON 

how  locoiiN'ert  the  non  (  hrislian  world.  (  )m'  reporter 
(d  the  Coiuaait ion  suggested  in  last  week’s  issue  three 
reasons  that  might  accoiint  lor  this.  To  tlurse  another 
might  he  addeil,  n.aniely,  that  ttntil  lliesi*  inter  r.aci.al 


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prdhlenis  are  faced  and  dealt  with  the  modern  student 
asked  to  enliNt  "to  convert  the  non-Christian  world,”  is 
likely  to  rej)!}',  “Convert!  To  what?" 

d  he  foreii^n  missionary  enterjirise  of  the  churches 
remains  one  of  the  few  agencies  for  world  understand¬ 
ing  and  y'ood  will  that  is,  to  an  appreciable  extent, 
accomplishing  that  end.  It  is  no  slight  rcsi>onsihihty 
to  hring  together  seven  thousand  students,  and  ask  them 
to  consider  the  investment  (d'  their  lives  in  this  form 
of  ser\'ice.  A  college  is,  at  least  indirectly,  imder  ohli- 
gation  to  its  re|>reseutati\es  to  see  to  it  that  the  call  they 
face  is  gennine  enough  to  he  worthy  ot  any  answer 
they  may  make  tt)  it  ;  an  organization  is  under  moral 
bonds  to  see  to  it  that  any  call  it  issues  under  such 
circumstances  is  to  a  task  that  actually  exists  and  is  as 
high  a  task  as  these  young  lives  can  find.  All  of  which 
means  that  there  is  a  (|ue.stion  of  the  deepest  ethical 
gra\it\  iiu'olved  in  the  j)icture  of  the  missionary  task 
that  is  shown  in  such  a  gatheriug  as  has  just  been  held 
at  Indianapolis. 

h'or  the  foreign  missionary  task  is  a  changing  task, 
flow  could  it  he  otherwise,  when  the  environment 
amidst  which  it  is  carried  on  is  changing  so  rapidly? 
It  is  true  that  in  some  fields,  as  in  Africa,  the  interior 
parts  of  South  America,  and  much  of  Arabic  Asia, 
change  is  coming  slowly,  and  the  task  thereft)re  remains 
much  as  it  was  in  the  days  of  the  first  i)ir)neers.  T)Ut 
the  ca.se  is  consjjicuously  different  in  Japan,  in  China, 
in  .Malaysia,  in  India,  in  Mexico.  In  many  of  the  major 
fields  for  overseas  effort,  the  cultural  scene  has  changed 
more  |.)rofoundly  in  the  last  ten  years  than  in  ten  cen¬ 
turies  ])reyious.  (  )ther  factors  are  invoK'cd,  hut  this 
alone  would  make  necessary  a  change  in  the  enterprise 
that  seeks  to  work  under  these  changed  conditions. 

.•\s  our  corresj)ondent  suggested,  this  change  was,  in 
some  measure,  personified  at  lndiana])oli.s.  Sherwood 
i'.ddy  did  not  hesitate  to  tell  the  students  that  the  sur- 
\iying  heroes  of  the  older  generation  are  being  forced 
to  the  sidelines,  and  that  a  new  team  is  necessary  to 
carry  the  hall  now  that  the  signal  is  ‘1-0-2-4.’  It 
would  he  a  mistake,  however,  to  think  that  the  change 
affects  only  men  who  have  been  administrative  leaders, 
h'or  there  were  on  the  ])latform  at  Indianajrolis,  and 
s|)eaking  before  other  audiences  there,  men  and  women 
directly  from  the  fields  overseas  who  had  not  caught 
the  significance  of  the  fact  that  when  the  leaders  wanted 
a  statement  of  conditions  in  those  fields  that  would 
carry  conviction,  they  went  to  nationals  to  get  it.  Hut 
there  were  some  missionaries  who  had. 

d'he  Student  X’ohmteer  Movement,  is  not  the  only 
part  ol  the  foreign  missionary  enterjudse  that  is  in  for 
a  period  of  readjustment.  In  truth,  the  Stuilent  Volun¬ 
teer  Movement,  just  because  its  constituency  is  .so  over¬ 
whelmingly  free  from  the  control  of  the  ])ast,  is 
likely  to  work  its  way  out  of  the  present  per])lexity 


Ijefore  other  missionary  agencies.  'I'he  missionary  him¬ 
self,  in  hundreds  ot  cases,  will  have  more  difficulty  than 
any  society  in  making  u])  his  mind  as  to  wdiat  his  job 
actually  is  under  changed  world  conditions. 

Is  it  to  i)reach?  If  by  iireaching  is  meant  the  fdd 
evangelistic  concejition,  it  is  enough  to  say  that,  on 
many  fields,  most  of  this  u'ork  is  already  left  to  the 
local  ministry.  True,  there  are  still  missionaries  wdio, 
in  the  course  of  their  itinerary,  preach.  Itut  the  oral 
delivery  of  a  message  is  generally  regarded  as  of  less 
importance  than  the  careful  sui)ervi.sion  of  other  mes¬ 
sengers.  A  lung  time  ago  missionaries  began  to  admit, 
with  a  sigh,  that  freiiuently  their  words  failed  to  ])ro- 
duce  as  much  in  the  way  of  results  as  the  words  of  their 
national  associates. 

Is  the  missionary’s  task  to  teach?  Tt  is  nndeniahle 
that  there  must  he  more  missionary  teaching  than 
])reaching  in  these  days.  In  many  institutions,  notably  in 
theological  schools  and  in  universities,  it  still  seems  to 
he  felt  that  the  faculty  must  contain  a  prei>onderance  of 
w’csterners.  ^Tt  even  the  day  of  the  missionary  as 
teacher  is  shortening.  Last  year,  the  Tmcknow  Christian 
f'ollege,  one  of  the  schools  of  highest  rank  under  Chris¬ 
tian  control  in  India,  chose  a  national  as  its  president. 
A  Chinese  was,  at  the  same  time,  made  the  dean  of  the 
theological  school  of  Peking  University.  Similar  con¬ 
ditions  have  obtained  in  Japan  for  some  time.  And 
there  are  places  where  public  sentiment  seems  to  favor 
schools  largely  staffed  or  entirely  by  nationals,  despite 
claims  for  superiority  on  instruction  in  the  schools  with 
western  missionaries  up.on  the  faculty. 

Is  the  missionary  to  he  a  healer?  Here  the  change 
is  slighter  than  elsewdiere.  The  place  for  the  mission- 
arv-doctor  is  still  clear,  and  can  still  he  defined  in  terms 
that  difl'er  little  from  those  that  would  have  been  em- 
jdoyed  twenty  years  ago.  And  the  growing  number  of 
fullv-trained  nationals  is  reaching  the  point  wdiere  the 
situation,  especially  in  centres  of  population,  will  re¬ 
quire  readjustments.  Still,  because  there  will  probably 
never  he  a  ]ilace  in  all  the  w'orld  where  there  is  no  use 
for  another  healer,  the  task  of  the  missionary-doctor 
remains  com])aratively  clear. 

Hut  if  the  missionary  is  forced  to  admit  that  he  is  not 
wdiat  he  thought  himself  a  generation  ago  land  what 
he  is  stiil  generally  thought  to  he  h_\'  most  westerners) 
it  is  time  that  he  found  out  wdiat  he  is,  or,  at  the  least, 
what  he  mav  become.  It  is  the  efiOrt  at  re-orientation 
that  wall  most  jierplex  missionaries  and  mission  organi¬ 
zations  during  the  ne.xt  decade.  ^Tt  it  is  ])Ossihle  to 
suggest,  in  at  lea.st  four  major  relationshi])s,  the  tasks 
that  mav  make  the  missionary  call  infinitely  alluring. 

In  his  relation  wdth  the  church  in  these  various  fields, 
the  missionarv  is  now  to  he  an  ad\dsor.  dhis  has  been 
said  before.  It  needs  to  he  said  again,  wdth  insistence 
upon  the  use  of  the  word  “ad\  isor"  in  its  original  and 


ohximis  meaning',  as  (nir  fiiiulanicntalist  friends  would 
imt  it.  I?y  adx'isor  we  do  imt  mean  a  disguised  boss. 
]>ut  we  do  mean  one  wIki  can  |)erform  one  of  the  most 
exacting  tasks  there  is,  which  loses  nothing  in  value 
because  it  is  not  done  beneath  a  sijotlight. 

In  his  relations  with  the  church  in  the  west,  the 
missionary  is  now  tn  he  an  interpreter.  fJe  has  been 
an  interpreter  of  the  west;  he  is  to  be  an  interpreter  to 
the  west,  d'o  he  sure,  there  will  be  something  to  he 
desired  on  his  interpretation,  something  that  no  alien 
observer  of  a  civilization  can  rpiite  command.  But  this 
will  he  made  up  by  the  missionary's  understanding  of 
the  civilization  to  which  he  is  interpreting.  And  it  is 
a  role  which,  while  exacting,  has  more  digntiy  in  it  than 
the  task  the  missionary  ha.-,  sometimes  known  of  acting 
as  a  section  boss  or  almoner  on  orders  transmitted  from 
an  ofhee  half  a  world  away. 

In  his  relatif)ns  with  the  peace-seeking,  forward- 
looking  flernocrats  of  the  world,  the  missionary  is  to  he 
an  agent  of  international  righteousness  anrl  good  will 
at  tlie  points  of  greatest  friction.  No  missionary  body, 
as  far  as  we  know,  has  as  yet  had  the  courage  to  face 
this.  A  few  missionaries  here  and  there,  such  as  Mr. 
C.  F.  Andrews  in  India,  have  heguti  to  face  it  from  a 
personal  stand])f)int.  I’ut  it  was  by  no  mischance  that 
the  main  attention  of  the  delegates  at  liiflianapolis  fell 
upon  war  and  race  relations.  I  lad  they  added  economic 
exploitation  to  their  discussions  they  would  have  been 
dealing  with  three  sources  of  world-wide  sorrow  that 
the  missionary  of  the  new  day  must  light  to  the  death. 


In  his  relations  with  the  unrcachcd  millions,  the 
missionary  is  now  to  he,  as  he  always  has  been,  a 
pioneer.  But  he  will  have  a  constantly  increasing  recog¬ 
nition  of  the  fact  that  the  work  of  carrying  the  good 
news  into  some  parts  of  the  map  that  we  still  paint  black 
can  he  done  more  effectively  by  non-Nordics,  and  that, 
for  the  sake  of  their  own  health,  the  rising  churches 
overseas  should  have  their  chance  at  some  of  the  pion¬ 
eering  that  remains  to  l)e  done.  After  all,  for  every 
pioneer  in  the  geographical  sense,  it  is  likely  that  the 
mission  field  will  need  two  or  three  or  four  who  will 
pioneer  in  another  sense. 

This  is  not  the  picture  of  the  same  jtih  that  has  always 
been  in  mind  when  the  call  to  missionary  service  has 
been  given.  It  is  not  a  picture  that  will  attract  some 
good  folk,  especially  at  fir.st  sight.  But  as  it  is  studied, 
and  the  imjdications  of  its  main  outlines  are  perceived, 
it  will  he  seen  to  he  the  picture  of  aliout  as  needful  a 
piece  of  work  as  this  world  contains. 

Dne  immediate  result  of  the  changing  status  of 
missionary  work  is  the  (|uestiou  as  to  the  number  of 
missionaries  needed.  For  all  that  we  can  see,  there 
might  easily  he  a  reduction  in  the  size  of  the  Christian 
Fxpeditionary  Force,  provided  there  was  an  increase  in 
its  ([uality.  How  many  a  hoard  secretary  ha^  sent  can¬ 
didates  out  whom  he  knew  to  he  (h'  doubtful  ca])acitv, 
hut  because  an  extensive  |K'rsonnel  list  called  fur  instant 
actidii.  For  it  is  the  kind  of  a  job  that  should  command 
the  best  we  have  to  ofler.  .\nd  anything  less  than  that 
best  will  never  he  able  to  carry  it  through. 


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Mass. 

.Syracuse — T.  V  .  fs.ii,  1 2,s  St.iilinni  PI.,  .Syracuse,  N.  A'. 
Toronto — Win.  Djang,  Knox  t  nllcga',  I'oronto,  (  an.id.i 
L,  4'.  Hwang,  Wyclill  Coihge',  Toronto,  tViinid.i. 

I',.  B.  (long.  W  xilitI  (  iilleee,  loi'oiilo,  C  anada. 

Tro_\' — (■.  K .  C'liien,  2014  lllli  St.,  'I'roy,  N.  Y. 

\  I'rmonI — (loodwin  Lee,  ,11  Loomis  .St.,  Bnrlinglon,  \  (. 
Wasliinglon  Dr.  P.  ( C'han,  .12(i  C'  .St.,  N.  W.,  W.ishing 
Ion,  I  ).  ('. 

WexI  Point — T.  IP  Cli.ing,  Milil,ir\-  ,\eadem\.  West  Point, 
N.  Y. 

Worcester — .Sarci'y  C  lien,  l()  Heelileld  Kd.,  Worcester, 
Mass. 

Vale  1.  IP  Tsao,  1122  Vale  .S)a.,  New  H,i\en,  Conn, 


WOMAN’S  DEPARTMENT 

Andiwer — Miss  M,ir\  ,Snn,  (i  C  Impel  ,\ec,,  ,\ndo\ci,  M.iss 
Baltimore — Miss  S.  C  .  C  h.in,  (loiiclu'r  C'ollege,  Balliiiiore, 

Md. 

Boston — .Miss  Until  Ho,  .341  M  .iss.ichiisells  ,\\c,,  Boston, 
.Mass. 

Bryn  M.iwr  -Miss  4  lieodorc  V  eil,  Br\ii  M.iwr,  P,i, 

Ca  I  i  I  orii  la— ,M  iss  D.iisy  Law,  ,30  !■  .  Carter,  ,Sierrc  VPidie, 
Cal. 

C  hicago — Miss  Dorothy  Wong,  20  Beecher  I  Pill,  IP  of 
C  4iicago, 

C4m  iniiali — Miss  l.edia  I  In,  331  O’erraee  .\\e.,  Cdneinnati, 

(). 

Coe — Mi.ss  Mi-D.iik  Li,  C'oe  CP,  C’cd.ir  Raiiids,  Li. 


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lliinter  Miss  r)oroth>-  Hiiie,  225  R.  51st  St.,  N.  Y.  City. 

Los  Angeles — Miss  Florence  Loo,  1017  W.  54th  St. 
Michigan-  Miss  V.  F.  Martha  Cook  RMg.,  .^nn  Harbor. 

Minnesota — Miss  Rntli  Fan,  115  k  luirch  St.,  S.  F'..,  Minne¬ 
apolis. 

Missonri — Miss  Lea  (.  hang,  0  ,\llen  J’k,  Columbia,  Mo. 
Morningsitle — Aliss  b'rances  Chang,  5007  Peters  Ave., 
.Sion.x;  Cit3%  la. 

M  t.  Holyoke — ^Miss  Lois  'Fodii,  South  Hadley,  Mass. 

New  A'ork — Miss  T.  N.  Kwong, 

Nortinvesteru — Miss  Sui  Wong,  2040  (  irrington  Ave.,  Fv- 
anston.  111. 

(Jberlin — Miss  L.  H.  Hsieh,  Kee])  Cottage,  (Jberlin,  O. 

(  Olio  -State — Miss  Catherine  Lau,  Mack  Hall,  Columbus,  O. 
(.>.  W'cslexan — Aliss  lessie  Wong,  Austin  Hall,  Delaware, 

O. 

] ’hiladclphia — Aliss  Ruth  Kwok,  220  S.  44lh  St.,  Jdiila.,  La. 
Pomona — Aliss  S.  D.  A’u,  Ponrona  C.,  Claremont,  Cal. 

Smith — Miss  K.  Nyi,  F’aunce  House,  Northampton, 

Alass. 

Springfield — Aliss  N.  'F.  Tsao,  International  Coll.,  Spring- 
field,  Alass. 

A’assar — Aliss  Fredrica  (.liang,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

W  esleyan — Aliss  K.  AC  Kiang,  Wesleyan  C.,  Alacon,  Ga. 
Wellesley — Aliss  Grace  Zia,  Tower  Court,  AVellesley,  Mass. 
Wisconsin — Aliss  .Anna  Chang,  122  .State  St.,  Aladisou. 

Yale — Aliss  Z.  W.  Koh,  840  Howard  Ave.,  New  Haven, 

Conn.  - 

MID-WESTERN  DEPARTMENT 

Anres — S.  C.  Cheng,  Box  03,  Sta.  .Ames,  la. 

Baldwin  Wallace — .Arthur  Sze,  .Men’s  Dorm.,  Berea,  <.). 
Chicago — Aliss  Dorothy  Wong,  Chairman,  20  Beecher 
Hall,  U.  of  Chicago. 

Aliss  Rosalind  Han,  575'!  Dorchester  .Ave.,  Chicago, 
lerome  'F.  Lieu,  5802  Maryland  .Ave.,  Chicago. 

Cincinnati — K.  P.  Liu,  2041  Alarshall  .’Vve.,  Cincinnati,  O. 

C  leveland — J.  A'.  Teong,  1204  Alelbourne  Rd.,  Cleveland,  O. 
Coe — Kuanty  Yung,  Coc  College,  Cedar  Rapids,  la. 

Cornell — FI.  H.  Li,  Box  571,  Alt.  ATrnon,  la. 

De  Pauw — David  H.  C.  Chang,  704  So.  Locust  St.,  Green- 
castle,  Ind. 

Detroit — Dr.  AAA  K.  Lim,  Chairman,  2201  Jefferson  .Ave., 
Detroit,  Alich. 

II.  L.  Jong,  Secretar\',  155  \\A  Palmer  I’ark  Blvd.,  High¬ 
land  Park,  Alich. 

THE  FINANCE 

NATIONAL  COMMITTEE 

Wellington  A’.  A\h  Liu,  Chairman,  28  Alellen  St., 
Cambridge,  Alass. 

Aliss  F)aisy  l.aw,  50  15.  Carter,  Sierra  Aladre,  Cal. 

Aliss  Doroth>-  AA’ong,  20  Beecher  Hall,  Univ.  of  Chi- 
cag(.),  Chicago,  111. 

Aliss  Giracc  Zia,  Tower  Court,  AA’ellesley,  Alass. 

L.  K.  Chang,  A'.  Af.  C.  .A.,  .Milwaukee,  W’is. 
lerome  Liu,  5802  Alarvlaud  .Ave.,  Chicago,  Ill. 

4'.  B.  Tu.  500  W.  122nd  St.,  N.  Y.  City.' 

\^.  W.  Woo,  21 1  S.  35rd  St.,  F’biladclphia,  Pa. 

Ira  C.  Lee,  1858  Laguna  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

James  K.  Shen,  ex-officio,  2065  Cornell  Pk,  Cleveland, 
(Ohio. 

Paul  C.  Along,  c.x-otfi'cio.  Drew  Seminar'^  Aladison, 

N.  J. 

A".  A'.  Tsu,  ex-officio,  547  Aladison  .Ave.,  N.  A'.  City 

DEPARTMENTAL  COMMITTEES 

1.  Eastern  Department 

'Foronto,  Canada,  AA'illiam  Djang,  Knox  College 
New  Ha\'cn,  Conn.,  Y.  H.  Tsao,  1122  A’ale  Sta. 
t  ambridge,  Alass.,  Livingstrin  Hu,  28  Alellen  St. 
Worcester,  Alass.,  Sarcey  Chen,  16  Hechfeld  Road 
Baltimore,  Aid.,  Aliss  Katherine  Chen,  808  N.  Broadway 
Princeton,  N.  J.,  P.  T.  Chen,  Graduate  College 
Ithaca,  N.  Ah,  K.  S.  Luk,  114  Highland  PI. 

New  York,  N.  AC,  T.  B.  Tu,  600  AAA  122nd  St. 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  AA  AAA  AVoo,  211  S.  33rd  St. 

Tjoy,  N.  Y.— David  S.  Hung,  2003  I5th  St. 

Nashville,  Tetin. — K.  Z.  Loh,  A^anderbilt  L^niv. 

Boston,  Alass.,  Aliss  Helen  Chen,  16  Harrison  .Ave. 


George  Louie,  Treasurer,  486  Charlotte  .-Ave.,  Detroit. 

C.  K.  Tan,  Religious,  116  Six  Alile  Rd.,  Detroit. 

P.  AA  Zi,  Social,  161  Beresford  Ave.,  Detroit. 

Peter  Chang,  Service,  101  Smith  .Ave.,  Detroit. 

Shu  Hsin  Chang,  Alembership,  AA  Al.  C.  A.,  Detroit. 
Golden — Marshall  Ch’ang,  Chinese  Club,  Golden,  Colo. 
Grinnell — Hawkins  A'ang,  Grinnell  College,  Grinnell,  la. 
Illinois — L.  1\.  Chen,  1506  W.  Lni\-.  .Ave.,  Urijana,  111. 
AI.  S.  Loh,  Box  15,  I'niv.  Sta.,  P’rbana,  111. 

P.  H.  Ho,  Box  14,  LAiiv.  Sta.,  Crhana,  111. 

Indiana — Joseph  Li,  521  N.  Indiana  .St.,  Bloomington,  Ind. 
loWa — Leonard  Hsu,  Historical  Society,  Iowa  City,  la. 
Alichigan  —  Horatio  Chen,  Chairman,  610  FA  AA'ashington 
St.,  Ann  .Arbor,  Alich. 

Aliss  AA  FA  AA'u,  Martha  Cook  Bldg.,  .Ann  .Arbor,  Alich. 
Miss  .Anna  Pan,  Rcts,\  Barbour  House,  .Auu  Arlior. 
Alilwaukce — C.  K.  Lo,  c/o  AA  .M.  C.  .A.,  Alilwaukce,  Wis. 
Minnes<Ua— T.  AA  Chang,  1514  8th  St.,  S.  F.,  Alinueapolis. 
Alissouri — Aliss  Eva  Chang,  9  Allen  PI.,  Columbia,  Alo. 
Alorningside — K.  AI.  Li,  Box  21,  AI.  S.  Sta.,  Sioux  (Aity,  la. 
Northw'estern — Jawhatt  AA’ang,  Garrett  Dormitory,  Ev¬ 
anston,  Ill. 

Oberlin— Y.  P.  Alei,  Box  2,  Oberlin,  O. 

Ohio  Slate — 'H.  11.  Sung,  47  \\A  F'rambes  .Ave.,  Columbus, 
O. 

O.  \\  esle}.'an — Alauricc  A'u,  175  N.  Sandusky  St.,  Dela¬ 
ware,  O. 

Purdue — K.  T.  l\wo,  415  Alain  St.,  A\A  Lafayette,  lud. 

St.  I.ouis — A*.  C.  Sun,  Medical  School,  St.  Louis,  Alo. 
Southwestern — FA  C.  Liu,  S.  \\A  College,  Winfield,  Kan. 
A’anderbilt — J.  I..  Huang,  AA’esley  Hall,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
Washburn — Paul  C.  F'ung,  1523  College  .Ave.,  Topeka,  Kan. 
Wisconsin — F'raiikliu  Shore,  1115  Regent  St.,  Aladison. 
Wooster — .S.  1A  Liu,  Kenardcn  Lodge,  AA’oostcr,  O. 


WESTERN  DEPARTMENT 

California — Ira  C.  Lee,  1858  Laguna  St.,  San  Francisco. 
Davis — Q.  S.  Tong,  LAiiv.  Farm,  Davis,  Cal. 

Los  .Angeles — Aliss  F'lorence  Loo,  1017  AAA  34th  St. 
Ponrona — Aliss  S.  D.  A'u,  Pomona  C.,  Claremont,  Cal. 
Seattle — Fred  AA’ong,  Eagleson  Hall,  LA  of  AA'ashington. 
Sacramento — Hiram  F'ong,  SlOyi  J  St,,  Sacramento,  (Tal. 
Stanford — D.  K.  Chang,  4  Sahatierra  St.,  Palo  .'Alto,  Cal. 


COMMITTEE 

II.  Mid-western  Department 

Chicago,  Ill. — Jerome  Lieu,  5802  Alaryland  .Ave. 
livanstou.  111,  Jawhatt  AA'ong,  Garrett  Dormitory 
Aladison,  AA'is.,  Charles  Shao,  124  S.  Alills  St. 
Alilwaukee,  AVis.,  L.  K.  Chang,  A'.  AI.  C.  A. 

L’rbana,  111.,  I..  K.  Chen,  1506  AA’.  L'niversit\'  St. 

AA'.  Lafayette,  Ind.,  K.  'F.  Kwo.  41, i  Al.ain  St. 

Ann  .Arbor,  Alich.,  Horatio  Chen,  610  E.  AA’ashington 
St. 

Ptetroit,  Alich.,  FI.  I..  Jong,  155  AA'.  Palmer  Park  Blvd., 
Highland  F^ark,  Alich. 

Cleveland,  CL,  J.  Y.  Jeong,  1204  Alelbourne  Rd.,  E. 
Cleveland. 

Oberlin,  O.,  A'.  P.  Alci,  Box  2 
.Ames,  la. — S.  C.  Chang,  Box  65,  Sta.  .A 
AI  innca]>olis,  Alinn.,  Aliss  Elizabeth  Li,  115  Church  St., 
S.  E. 

AA'ooster,  (4.,  S.  'F.  I.iu,  Kcuarden  Lodge 
lAclaware,  CL,  Miss  Jessie  AA'ong,  .-Austin  Hall,  O.  AA  es- 
leyan  L’niv. 

Columbus,  C)..  Aliss  Catherine  Lau,  Alack  Hall,  O. 
State  L'niv. 

(.'luciniiati,  (L,  Aliss  L\  <lia  Flu,  551  I  errace  .Ave. 
Columbia,  Alo.,  Aims  F.\a  Chang,  8  .Allen  PI. 

St.  Louis.  Alo.,  A’.  Sun,  Medical  Scbo<il,  St.  Louis  C. 
Sioux  City,  la..  Miss  Frances  Chang,  5907  Peters  .Ave 
Cincinnati,  O.,  K.  P.  Liu,  2941  Alarshall  Ave. 

III.  Western  Department 

Sierra  Aladre,  Cak,  Aliss  Daisy  Law.  50  E.  Carter. 

San  Francisco,  Cal,  Ira  C.  Lee,  1858  Laguna  St. 

Seattle,  AA'ash.,  Fred  AA'ong,  Eagleson  Hall,  Univ.  of 
AA’ashington 

Davis,  Cal,  Q.  S.  Tong,  L'niversity  Farm 
Claremont,  Cal,  Aliss  Shwen  Dji  A'u,  224  AA’.  7th  St. 


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OFFICERS 


Central  Board 

Prcsicletii,  James  I\.  Shcti,  2063  Cornell  I’l.,  Cleveland,  O. 
First  \'icc-President,  Miss  (irace  Zia,  Tower  Court,  ^^'clles- 
ley,  IMass. 

Second  \’ice- President,  Ching  Wah  Lee,  S30  Stockton  St., 
San  Francisco.  Cal. 

Treasurer,  Pan!  C.  Aleng,  347  Aladison  ,\ve.,  X.  Y.  City 
Member,  Eugene  Chan,  166  Newbury  St.,  Boston,  Mass. 
Gen.  Sec.,  Y.  Y.  Tsu,  347  Madison  Ave.,  New  York  City 

Eastern  Department 

Chairm,an,  Paul  C.  IMeng  \k  Chairman,  Eugene  Chan 

Secretary,  Da\4d  S.  Hung,  2003  13th  St.,  Troy,  N.  Y. 

Mid-Western  Department 

Chairman,  James  K.  Shen  V.  t'hairman,  Joseph  Tuck 

Secretary,  K.  T.  Kwo,  415  Main  St.,  W.  Lafayette,  Ind. 

Western  Department 

Chairman,  Q.  S.  Tong,  Lniversity  Farm,  iJasis,  Cal. 

V.  Chairman,  Ching  Wah  Lee 
Secretary,  Ira  C.  Lee,  1858  Laguna  St.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

• 

Woman’s  Department 
Chairman,  Miss  Grace  Zia 

First  V.  Chairman,  Miss  P'ongtsung  Tsu,  156  S.  Prof.  St., 
Oberlin,  O. 

Second  V.  Chairman,  .Miss  54  Fang  Wu.  Martha  Cook 
Bldg.,  Ann  .Arbor,  Alich. 

Treasurer,  Aliss  Grace  Wong,  133  H  emeu  way  St.,  Boston 
Secretary,  Miss  Eva  Chang,  0  .Allen  PI.,  Columbia,  Alo. 

Finance  Committee 

Chairman,  Wellington  Liu,  28  AlclUm  St.,  Cambridge,  Alass. 


C.  S.  C.  A.  BUDGET  AUGUST,  1923-July,  1924 


Expenditures 

1,  Printing:  bellow  shi])  Notes  . 480 

.\muial  Ri’iioi't  . .  250 

Alulligraphing  .  50 

Al  iscellaneous  .  100 

I’oslage  and  Seiwice:  I 'ellow  ship  .XoteN .  200 

M  iscellaiu  ous  . 

.1.  I  )e])arl  men  1  s :  $150  each .  000 

4.  'I'ldcgi'ams  and  Oflice  Sui)i)lii’S .  100 

5.  Summer  Conference  Subsidies .  150 

6.  Sludeni  Aid  b'und .  1,000 

7.  Secrelarial  \  isitalion  .  'H)0 

8.  Central  Board  Meeting .  150 

0.  Contribution  to  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  (  hina .  100 

10.  “  “  A'.  W.  C.  A.,  China .  50 

11.  •“  “  C.  S.  C.  A.,  Germany .  25 

12.  I  )isl i-ibii  1  ion  of  l  .iteratui'c .  50 

I  .V  Membershi])  Pins  .  100 

14.  Fmergeneies  .  100 

$-1.4,s.5 

Income 

1.  Subsidy  of  Frientlly  Rel.ations  ('ommittee . tfl.oOO 

2.  Cont  rilnit  ions  .  2,85.s 


$4,455 


In  sending  con  I  ribiil  ions  i)lease  in, ike  elu'cks  p.ir.ible  to 
Paul  C,  Meiig,  Treasurer  (‘hinese  Students  t'hristian  Asso¬ 
ciation,  347  Madison  .Avenue,  N.  A’.  City. 


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